Word: vast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Crimson Graduate Board Chair William L. Pollak ’79 said the new technology justified the vast expense...
Hudak duly recognizes the effect of having two Olympians on the ice. As is the case with the vast majority of Olympians on the collegiate level, both Apps and Piper are years older than their fellow classmates, having played on the national and international levels for years before donning the green and white in Hanover...
Between electoral politics and civil disobedience, however, there is the vast realm of advocacy by non-governmental organizations who constitute a new and growing force in civil society. They work at the grass-roots on such causes as curbing AIDS in Africa, saving rainforests in Brazil, building literacy in Central America and tutoring American youth in high schools or juvenile halls. Harvard students have led the way towards living wage and anti-sweatshop standards. Though not political in a narrow sense, their work impacts the climate of politics and often leads to government action. It would be in the interest...
...suburbs, and that someone should be privileged merely by living in the Midwest. Yet growing up in a declining coal town in West Virginia or in rural Alabama necessarily presents high school students with institutional hurdles generally associated with those of the inner city. And while a vast majority might think that students of this pedigree would benefit from umbrella affirmative action programs with diversity as their goal, the appreciable difference between an African American high schooler from Harlem and the average student boarding at St. Paul’s is not ethnic, but socio-economic or geographic...
...fact that there have been some layoffs in some parts of the University, and they really want to feel as secure as possible and really support a goal of trying to make sure everybody has a place at Harvard,” said Jaeger. “The vast majority of members of the union line up pretty strongly behind our main philosophical idea about security at Harvard, which is that it’s not practical or effective for a union to say nothing should ever change. Clearly the university is undergoing some huge changes...