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...budget plan had called for the hiring of fewer teaching assistants—section leaders who are otherwise unaffiliated with Harvard, as opposed to teaching fellows. Average section sizes were expected to creep upwards, closer to a long-standing target of 18 students, which, according to McCarty, is frequently undershot...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Enrollment Shifts Stymie TF Hiring | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...forecast 12 major tropical storms for 1995, and in early August he upped the number to 16, just five storms shy of the record set in 1933 and more than double the number in 1994. "People thought we'd gone crazy," says Gray. "Now it appears we probably undershot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HURRICANE ONSLAUGHT | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

...undershot the runway," Bishop said. He said the company had taken delivery of the plane only 12 weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: British Jet Crashes En Route to Ireland | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

During Burns' last year, the Federal Reserve constantly overshot or undershot its targets, for reasons that no one seems fully to understand. The Ml growth rate swung crazily from almost 14% in one month to nearly zero in another, and the gyrations confused and alarmed moneymen. Miller aims for more stability by not pushing down wildly on the pedal or slamming on the brakes in one month to correct the previous month's error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inflation: Attacking Public Enemy No.1 | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...show. "He just doesn't give a damn until he wants to give a damn," sighed Owner Saylor, "and he doesn't give one very often." But in the view of Judge Albert Van Court, Jock's massive shoulders, his wrinkled face with its powerful undershot jaw, and the low-slung carriage seemed little short of perfection. Not since 1913 had a bulldog won that final award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best in Show | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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