Word: thought-out
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...Strala, Scot Laughton and Tom Deacon have created an impossibly pretty, thoroughly thought-out floor lamp. It has steel tubes finished in black epoxy; the conical shade is spun aluminum; the green spherical on-off dimmer switch is patinated brass. The result is a lamp that alludes serenely to light -- the moon and the sun -- without fuss or frill...
...most influence the feel from the University is what they learned while attending Harvard. "By in large Harvard alumni are more socially aware of events and issues, and they tend to be more outspoken than the average person, and their opinions are backed with good reasons and well thought-out philosophies in government," says Sullivan...
...review what it has done and to suggest changes for the future. This process requires time for education and deliberation, especially when the issues are new. The administration cannot expect the student body to undergo this review process during exam time and still put forward students who have thought-out and representative views...
...become forms of social engineering. While Harvard can strive to offer as diverse and variegated and undergraduate population as possible through its admissions and curriculum, it cannot cross the line into the regions of individual choice and preference to force-feed diverse experiences on its students. Like a well thought-out buffet, there should be something for everyone but not everyone has to taste everything. And, by the same token, the College cannot admit people in part because they are musicians and athletes and not expect these characteristics to spill over into their social life and choice of friends...
...second term with what looks like a wholesale shake-up. At least five of the 13 Cabinet departments will be getting new chiefs; by spring hardly a single member of the top White House domestic- policy staff will remain in place. The changes have come piecemeal, without any carefully thought-out plan or even conscious overall design. Moreover, they are being made at an unpropitious time, when the Administration should be concentrating on its agenda for the next four years...