Word: unsound
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...truth of the matter is that Advanced Standing is educationally unsound, and should not continue to exist in its current form, if at all. Most students realize this, which is why the vast majority of first-years who will accept Advanced Standing tomorrow will eventually rescind it. This is not to say that there are not students mature enough or focused enough to complete their undergraduate requirements in three years. But successful A.P. scores are arbitrary, unequal and poor indicators of either focus or maturity. More importantly, a complete college experience takes a full four years...
...staff's suggestion that a referendum to decide the fate of the Undergraduate Council's windfall is hasty and unsound. The plan risks a reckless use of the money and undermines the legitimacy of an ad hoc committee created by the council to consider various options. We fear a referendum will be biased and that a better outcome will come from more careful deliberation...
...have to care much for Clinton to know that any number of things about Starr's inquiry feel unsound. His indifference to the niceties of nonpartisanship, his way of delivering the evidence without the exculpatory alternatives that prosecutors generally offer would be enough. What's really unsettling is the larger dynamic. At a time when the notion of a protected personal realm is beginning to seem quaint and sepia toned, even people who don't expect government investigators on their doorstep sense that Starr has breached more than just the President's tattered defenses. By its very example, his investigation...
...ministry bureaucrat, she had been brought up to care more about her Portuguese enunciation than the environment. But Mendes' death taught her that the deadly tension between land and development was costing Brazil its future. "I realized that if we were going to survive, we couldn't continue with unsound environmental development," says Mitraud. Today the 32-year-old is a tireless activist for the World Wildlife Fund. On the road more than half of each month, Mitraud, who is single, shuttles between crusades to repair Brazil's rain forests, its fragile Atlantic archipelagoes or the rapidly disappearing central savannas...
Campbell protested his removal and claimed the group's constitution was unsound...