Word: umbrella
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...Chris Coley is the closest thing there is to an authority on RSI (or, to be technically correct, RSIs; RSI is, in the words of a Harvard-Radcliffe RSI Action Group handout, "an umbrella term for a variety of injuries: tendinitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, cubital tunnel syndrome, etc.") at Harvard. A physician at University Health Services (UHS), Dr. Coley has made a professional hobby of the disease. He candidly admits that "It s really something that most physicians know very little about." A survey he has conducted collaboratively with the Computer Science Department will, once examined, hopefully provide a quantitative...
...largest entirely student-run organization on campus with nearly 500 members, and serves as the umbrella organization for six constituent programs, including the Model United Nations...
...weather report sponsored by the National Association of Umbrella Manufacturers...
...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) funds, and runs, Take Back the Night. No, we're not a "women's student government," and I don't believe we've been one since the '70s We are an umbrella organization devoted to women's issues--their funding, their organizations, their network. We hold dinner discussions every Thursday night at 6 p.m. in the Lyman Common Room (another unknown Radcliffe resource). We have occasional events of our own, like clothing swaps. And we do all this on the five dollars every Radcliffe undergraduate gives us in her tuition bill...
Some of the oldest, most time-consuming activities generate their own characteristic "types": the smooth-talking future senators of the Institute of Politics, the do-gooders at Phillips Brooks House Association, Harvard's umbrella community service agency, and the oft-maligned windbags of the Undergraduate Council...