Word: padding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world of Hoope's Prize winners, one thesis surpasses all others with 192 pages of pure writing. There are other texts in the 200 to 300 page range, but diagrams and pictures unfairly pad these theses. Jeremy Kleiner '98 wrote the epic, "Spectacles: Transparency, Representation, and Politics in Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French Revolution, Situationism, and Postmodern Thought." The 15-word title appropriately introduces the 70,000-word document...
...conventional wisdom is that the economic anxiety now gripping much of the world has its roots in the collapse of Thailand's currency, the baht, in July 1997, after investors discovered that Thailand's economic boom was built on a base as solid as a bowl of pad Thai noodles. But the roots actually reach back further, to Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones industrial average shed 22.6% of its value in a single day. The market, of course, rebounded--and how. But at the time, professional investors thought U.S. stocks were due for a decade...
...career points, which makes her the first Harvard women's skaterto surpass the 200-point mark and the third skaterever at Harvard to pass this mark. With nine moregames left in the regular season, Mleczko has timeto pad her records even more...
Summer can be a time to relax from these academic pressures. It is also a chance to build experience that can turn into a career. Juniors in particular, may feel pressure to use the "last summer" to pad their resumes before the search for a real...
Fellow Huskies freshman forward Ryan Zoller made it all happen, deftly protecting the puck and then flipping it high past junior defenseman Matt Scor- sune for a mini-breakaway that forced juniorgoaltender J.R. Prestifilippo to sprawl to make aspectacular pad save. But Cummings tapped in therebound to catapult the Huskies into the finals...