Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will look back fondly on my Harvard life, but only in spite of many things. Harvard promises much in admitting us, gives us little during four years, and then asks for much after we have graduated. Don't bother asking me for money, Derek. You didn't listen to me. I refuse to listen...
...departments may be banking on the students' own interest to keep them learning and involved in the subject. Such an attitude would not be helpful when so many potential concentrators are dropping out. Indeed, many of the people I know who are science majors are in their science in spite of their experience with the department. It is to be expected that first-year students will be discouraged if they do not have a positive experience in their class and they see little improvement in the department in higher-level courses...
Still, though, in spite of all the fringe benefits, the noise is driving me crazy! Why couldn't these buildings go up in the middle of the Yard, or at the Quad, or on the Boston Common? Why in my back yard...
...Looking to the future, China, not because of Communism but in spite of it, will be an economic and military superpower. Do we want to run the risk of being an adversary rather than an ally of China in the next century...
...spite of all the negative feedback, the NSF committee decided that previous experiments were inconclusive and that further research should be conducted to find the answers to the yet unsolved questions...