Word: offing
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A few larger programs, those serving large numbers of extremely sick liver patients, favor Shalala's plan because it would increase their share of transplant operations.
In choosing a college, many students see the issue of class size as one of the most important in their search for a fulfilling education. Most high schoolers and their parents assume that smaller classes necessarily translates into better teaching.
And despite its undeniable prestige, Harvard has come under fire from outside observers, who charge the College with an excess of large, impersonal lecture classes and inaccessible professors.
But according to Harvard faculty members, the anonymity of large classes is offset by the teaching ability of the engaging and charismatic big name professors who generally preside over big lecture courses. Because these professors are both talented and well-known, they draw more students each time the class is...
"I hate it when anything is limited at Harvard," Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 wrote in an e-mail message. "It is so hard to get in to this place, all students should have access to everything without a further selection process, except of course by prerequisites...