Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's vigor in this case contrasts sharply with its so-far lame response to the need for signs in another part of Harvard's domain. I am referring to the need for signs to guide the constant flow of visitors and newcomers walking to and over the broad, featureless overpass by Memorial Hall safely toward their desired destination...
Lest one worry about the possibility of future acts of destruction, Interim President Claire Fagin and Interim Provost Marvin Lazerson stated, "We will respond vigorously to any future violations." In light of the "vigor" involved in the adjudication of this incident, I doubt that too many potential paperphobics are losing sleep over the threat...
...Clinton administration's new policy on gays in the military has only created more questions, and one of Harvard's longest-running controversies--which just last May seemed to be moving toward closure--may surface with renewed vigor this year, according to professors outspoken on the issue last year...
...cultural deforestation ("Give us this day our daily discount- outlet merchandise,/ Raise up a multiplex and we will pay the sacrifice"), and closes with Famous Last Words, a snapshot of a resort town after Labor Day ("Nothing left for a dreamer now,/ Only one final serenade"). With vocal vigor and melodies that evoke the Beatles, the Kinks or Blood, Sweat and Tears but are tweaked to sound fresh, the piano man sells angst and redemption to the bar crowd. He's a hip pontificator -- the Boss with a higher...
...most people, railroads mean passenger trains; they, after all, carry people. But most of the stock rattling and rumbling along U.S. tracks these days is hauling freight and is doing so, as TIME contributing editor Hugh Sidey reports in this issue, with surprising vigor. "A couple of years ago," says Sidey, "I began noticing brief newspaper items about various freight routes and companies. And they didn't mention government subsidies. Freight was making money...