Word: surmounts
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...Advocate's current executive board, while tipping its hat to tradition, is trying to spruce up the magazine in many ways. By experimenting with its format, board members say they hope to appeal to a somewhat broader readership. With certain changes in administrative organization, they believe the Advocate may surmount the financial troubles that have proved so debilitating in the past. And by attempting to draw more people into the building itself, they hope to help it become more of a focal point for the Harvard literary community...
...change the system so that it can both surmount the current money shortage and continue providing protection to the elderly and disabled without placing an intolerable burden on the young involves making the kind of choices that politicians so far have been running from, with irresponsible cowardice...
...second half was largely academic, because the Crimson was unable to surmount the lead acquired by Koziara and company. Neither team dominated play for the remaining portion of the game: Harvard's more durable defense evenly distributed the scoring of the contest...
...their live album, "One More for the Road," released last year, were lean ones for them. Of the three surviving British Invasion rock bands, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones and the Who, the Kinks are perhaps most surprising in their longevity. Any band must surmount numerous pressures to last as long as these three have, but only the Kinks have done so in the face of wavering and often scarce popularity. The Stones and the Who have remained in the limelight throughout their careers, but the Kinks, under the direction of lead-singer/songwriter Raymond Douglas Davies, remained during...
...standing next to a black, and when he cheered I said, 'You're my mate-but only for today, mark you.' " Rather it seemed that the country was, on this day of symbolic union, drawing together to celebrate the traditional values that might, if anything could, surmount its growing problems...