Word: mereness
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...Plugging its "quality" (e.g., upscale) existing lineup, the network rolled out a mere 4 1/2 hours of new programming - three sitcoms and three dramas - asking advertisers instead to focus on "The West Wing" ("The most upscale show on any network!") and "Law and Order" and their jewel-encrusted white-collar audiences. The spin was, of course, that the network lineup was so solid that it needed little tinkering...
...finally figured out what the public wants in a laptop computer. The new iBook looks and feels very much like a titanium Powerbook that went through a compactor and got drenched in milky-white plastic. This is not a bad thing. The newcomer is 1.3 in. thick--a mere 0.3 in. deeper than the titanium model, yet has shed about 2 in. in length (meaning you can almost hide it under an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper). Its keyboard is still full-size, however, and the plastic-rubbery covering should scratch and stain even less than titanium...
...certain that the staff would unambiguously support some type of University discipline—even mere probation or official admonishment—for protesters with whose demands it disagreed. If students seized a University building for 21 days to protest against a living wage, or to call for an end to abortion access at University Health Services, the staff would undoubtedly write that they should not walk away unpunished. And even if the University eventually agreed with the protesters’ demands, the protesters would not deserve a get-out-of-jail-free card that would be denied to others...
...involved in organizing the committee, President-elect Lawrence H. Summers should take the committee’s recommendations seriously. Its report will be non-binding, as should be expected, but for the administration to take heed the committee’s deliberations must be viewed as more than a mere exercise in counting heads...
...surly bonds of earth/ and climbed the sky on laughter-silvered wings." The aviation industry, with a sort of corrupt nostalgia, still uses rhetoric about "the freedom to fly." But Lindbergh ultimately became profoundly disgusted with the industry that he had pioneered. He ended life regarding air travel as mere squalor and aviation in general as one of the world's serious environmental problems...