Word: textbook
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...Textbook prices at Harvard and across the country have been rising at an alarming rate, faster than inflation, and will hit a high again this year...
...bloc. A candidate who carries the region can pick and choose among the rest of the states to put together a winning combination. The South, plus New York, California, Ohio and Michigan, for example, yields an electoral-vote total of 307. Carter's election in 1976 was a textbook illustration of how the arithmetic works. The former Georgia Governor carried the entire South (except Virginia) and defeated Gerald Ford by 57 electoral votes, even though Carter won only one non-Southern state west of the Mississippi River and had only a 2-percentage-point edge in the popular vote. Says...
...American women's real secret formula is what it has always been: talent cultivated through hard work. Evans, for example, looked barely pubescent in Seoul. Her small, flat body, coupled with the startling turnover rate of her stroke, yielded textbook efficiency underwater. Now 20 and womanly, 2 in. taller and 15 lbs. heavier, she says, "I really have to be aware of getting my speed up, so I train even longer." Evans probably ranks as the safest bet for gold on this gilded squad. She is returning in the 400-m and 800-m freestyle, not having lost at either...
...looked very closely into the textbook operation a few years ago," says Bossert, Arnold professor of science. "And I found the real problems with the textbook operation were with the Harvard faculty...
Murphy says the University could make the life easier for his busy textbook department by establishing an office to coordinate requests...