Word: lengthening
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cites the results of the referendum recently conducted by the UC, during which 2,914 students—constituting 43.4 percent of the undergraduate population and 84 percent of those voting—cast their lot in favor of a calendar configuration that would put fall exams before Christmas, lengthen winter break, and end the school year a week and a half earlier than at present. Bok did not downplay the results of the referendum in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson a few days ago. He wrote that “the results will represent a significant factor...
...grow in response to estrogen, half a dozen drugs, beginning with tamoxifen, introduced in the late '70s, work by blocking that hormone. Such drugs prevent cancer recurrences for 10 years or more in 50% of women with estrogen-sensitive tumors. Even for those with metastatic disease, hormone therapy can lengthen life and frequently will be more effective than chemotherapy. (Edwards told TIME, however, that her cancer was only slightly sensitive to estrogen, though she's waiting for new biopsy results to reveal "what receptors and markers I have...
...recently published report by the Committee on House Life (CHL), there is no way to extend dining hall hours without increasing the $4,618 per semester board fee paid by each student. This led the Committee to conclude that, “Given cost constraints, the request to lengthen dining hours in each House is not feasible.” We disagree. We’re willing to pay a bit more for better service, and we’d hazard to guess that a vast majority of students would agree. Unless we’re willing to fork over...
...that decides the cheapest ways to reduce emissions, regardless of what the EAC suggests. Nobody is telling Harvard how to reduce emissions; instead, the student body is giving administrators a goal. When we deal with climate change, we always deal in the long-term, and as the time scales lengthen, so do the unknowns. It is time that we all start accepting the fact that solving the climate change problem requires sacrifice. You write that this measure will guarantee costs, but it will not guarantee savings. Of course it won’t guarantee savings. That is, unless you consider...
...obtain an absentee ballot. Applications for the absentee option have exploded partly because of worries about the paperless machines, and partly because both parties have mailed applications to millions of voters whether they requested them or not. That could shorten lines at the polls on Election Day but lengthen the count on election night. All around the U.S., the percentage of absentee balloting is exploding: most jurisdictions are seeing a jump in the ballots going out and coming back in by mail. More than 50% of the total turnout in the states of Washington and Nevada will be by absentee...