Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students naturally tend toward the path of least resistance. It follows that the vast majority of future honors concentrators will substitute Ec 1010 for the more difficult 1011. By allowing this, the department is diluting the value of an honors Economics degree...
Second, every lifetime post on the Harvard faculty, at least within Arts and Sciences, tends to be the occasion for a national, even international, search. Without a tenure track system, as exists at most universities, the vast majority of junior people have little choice but to emigrate. At the second-tier state university where I teach, the question generally asked about an assistant professor is: "Has he/she published enough to be a reasonable candidate for tenure?" At Harvard, and the handful of similar schools around the country, the question is: "Is this person the very finest we can get from...
...those of you who have not read the book, there is nothing particularly yuppie about the story, aside from its audience and the vast quantities of coke that the narrator, better known as "you," consumes through the fast-turning pages. No one in the story works on Wall Street. No one has a VCR, drives a BMW or listens to CDs. In fact, the protagonist, who in the film has a name, Jamie Conway, works as a fact-checker at a magazine modeled on the stodgy old New Yorker. Even his best buddy, the flashy Tad Allagash (Kiefer Sutherland...
...Wolf criticized Harvard's intentions to attempt blocking the zoning controls. "Harvard's responsibility as a public body, which is vast because of all its tax-free land, conflicts with its role as a real estate developer," she said...
...Barbara Mueller, vice president of the Illinois State Rifle Association. "They don't have a cigarette dangling from the corner of their mouth, and they're not closet commandos." Though more women are appearing at shooting ranges and gun clubs, the sporting aspect is not really the issue. The vast majority who are buying guns -- about 75%, by most estimates -- are doing so to protect their homes and themselves...