Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Three's Company": Jack gets hired to cater a surprise birthday party for Mr. Furley an the Regal Beagle. He decides to serve oysters on the half-shell. Just as the oysters take effect, Larry walks into the bar to find Janet, Krissy and Jack all squirming under Mrs. Roper's oversized...
...evidence is that children and parents who take advantage of voucher programs tend to be more actively involved in education," Elmore said. "But what about those left behind?...The net effect is a reduction in performance...
...second option--already in effect, according to what some professors say and others do--is consciously to give out lower grades. The rumored "one A per section" rule in some Core classes is a case in point. But this plan is not wise. It drives away serious students unwilling to sacrifice their pride and, possibly, their degree of future success to appease what appears to be a professor's mean streak...
Beth Stewart has argued time and time again that the Undergraduate Council, which has only a limited amount of "political capital" in negotiations with the administration, should focus on campus issues--issues where ostensibly students agree and the council can effect real change. This seems like a nice enough idea: let's pretty up this tower of ours. We pay well over a hundred thousand dollars to go to school here; we should be able to wrap our grapes in two-ply toilet paper and eat them in the back seat of student-accessible vans. Well, that...
Under the new policy, which has been in effect since February 9, the University will require prior authorization for all uses of the Harvard name and the names of schools and units within the University, Fineberg said...