Word: purports
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manner in which they have conducted their business is all wrong. If the administration is truly concerned about how we feel, why don't they just ask? The dispensation of information is the best place to start; let us know exactly what the Trust is, what its goals purport to be and how it fits into the grand scheme of funding Harvard student groups. Most importantly, the Trust needs to give anyone who is truly motivated the opportunity to become involved. By appointing a select group of students, an instant wedge is driven between the representatives and the people whom...
...PLAYERS] --Liquor Wholesalers and Distributors They purport to be concerned about Internet liquor sales to minors...
...fairly hypocritical that the staff chooses to criticize the BGLTSA for using the same First Amendment right that The Crimson depends on everyday (Monday through Friday, holidays excluded). While The Crimson may purport to hold to certain standards of decency, these standards are, as we well know, are completely subjective. Intellectual communities thrive on free discourse, especially the kind of discourse which challenges our subjective ideas of decency. Outside visitors come to admire Harvard not just for its brick buildings and carefully tended lawns, but also for the vibrancy of the intellectual community which those buildings house. To criticize...
There are no quick fixes to solving endemic problems in living standards. It requires the constant inflow of many thousands of the best and the brightest (what we at Harvard purport to be) dedicating themselves to the systems that will develop the seed varieties and better production techniques to grow more food, develop the packaging to guarantee its freshness, build the roads and the trucks to distribute it efficiently and design the technologically sophisticated ovens to cook it. Business people all over the world are driving all of the these functions...
...looking for: that new Carnegie Mellon University study suggesting that using the Internet can cause isolation, loneliness and depression. Whatever, I sigh, and roll over for another nap. But later, when I wake up and go online, I can't seem to shake the thing. The researchers purport to have measured, over the course of two years, the deleterious effects of a mere hour a week of Net use. They reported an average increase of 1% on a depression scale, four-tenths of a percent on a loneliness scale and a loss of 2.7 members of the user's social...