Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...faculty committee may well choose to loosen these restrictions. Several competing universities already have less stringent standards. At Stanford, for instance, faculty members are allowed to own up to $100,000 worth of research and technology firms without alerting university...
Harvard's Houses and dorms also benefit from being so short. With only two high-rise dormitories on campus--Mather and Leverett--Harvard students face significantly less risk of being trapped high in a burning building, a factor which may have contributed to the fatalities in the Seton Hall fire...
...Diaspora, a tension that will return again and again. He delves into long discussions of Reagan's actions in the Bitburg Affair and of French president Francois Mitterrand. His thoughts are fascinating. I have said that Wiesel's reflections are not emotionally intimate. This does not make them less emotionally powerful. His words are personal, intellectual. Indirectly yet still consciously, they call upon a deep reservoir of personal and Jewish experience...
...After the Restoration, the Comedy of Manners took over as the dominant form of drama, so theater began to focus more on language and wit and there was less brute physicality. Think about the precursors to the Oscar Wilde-type play, where it's all about the aristocracy sitting around pontificating about how wealthy and bored they are. Throw some torture in there and it just wouldn't work...
...been a Republican sticking point for a long time because they know how popular it could be with the electorate," says TIME senior economics writer Bernard Baumohl. "And now it looks like the Democrats have decided to capitalize on the national mood and come up with their own - albeit less generous - version," worth roughly $95 billion...