Word: seemed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mediocre learning experiences they often find in these courses. Many of the introductory classes may have star professors with excellent subject knowledge and lecturing ability, but that does not suffice to teach students effectively. Sections are a large part of the learning experience in such courses, but many courses seem to dump teaching fellows indiscriminately on their students with little concern for the outcome. If the University wants people to enjoy and become interested in the sciences, there need to be more teachers hired with quality teaching skills and an ability to communicate their excitement with the subject matter...
...would think, with all that dieting, the pounds would have just melted away. But that's the funny thing. I didn't seem to lose any weight. In fact, the last time I lost a significant amount of weight was when I cut three inches off my hair. So when my dieting buddy decided to go for the gold and really go on a diet, we knew that we were going to have to devise a more effective diet plan...
...Crimson, which has hit only 63.8 of its freebies, can't seem to find its rhythm from the line. And in its 19-point loss to Holy Cross last Wednesday, Harvard gave future opponents a possibly effective defensive strategy--just foul, foul, foul...
...their astonishing life cycle as the babies drink 100 gal. of milk a day, breathe through a hole in the top of their heads, learn to dive a mile deep, and eventually become so immense that their tongues can weigh as much as a full-grown elephant. The leviathans seem fantastic, but 20 detailed photographs of the endangered species show that big is beautiful -- and actual...
...corporate raiders who amassed fabulous fortunes in the 1980s, that sad song has begun to seem painfully true. Armed chiefly with bravado and borrowed cash, such buccaneers as T. Boone Pickens, Paul Bilzerian and Canada's Robert Campeau once made boardrooms tremble and the stock market dance. No longer. More jeered than feared, many raiders are mired in debt, saddled with bankrupt companies or deprived of their clout. Others who profited from the buyout binge face public obloquy or even years in jail...