Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carnegie Foundation report's furtherrecommendations include the expansion ofinquiry-based learning for first-years. The reportlauds a Duke University program, which usesbig-name faculty in small discussiongroups--somewhat like the Freshman Seminar programat Harvard...
...will always stay so low. By being exempt from access fees and other taxes, these IP phone companies are essentially being allowed by the government to steal a slice of the telephone pie without being subject to the same taxes and fees their competitors pay. Beyond giving them a somewhat unfair competitive advantage, this goes against the FCC's long-standing tradition of funding itself and wide-spread telephony access through taxes on long-distance phone service...
...Harvard's residential system will become fully randomized for the first time in the history of the College. When the class of '98 leaves these hallowed homes, very few remaining students will have a personal memory of a time when the houses were chosen--even of the non-ordered, somewhat random variety of choice...
With all these criticisms I remain in full agreement. Randomization is one in a string of decisions that the University has made with complete indifference to student opinion; limitations of student freedom is never something to be lauded; blocking groups remain large, splintering somewhat House communities and undermining the very goals of integration. Nonetheless, randomization is not the unmitigated disaster I was certain it would...
...This was the closest it's been in my four years here which is somewhat disappointing because it's nice to kill Yale," said Angell, "but they have really improved, the result reflects how much better they are, and it's good to have some real competition. And now, we'll be looking for them at the Heptagonals...