Word: somehow
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When Neil L. Rudenstine took over the Harvard administration in 1991, he said he would stay for ten years. Somehow, no one seems to have believed...
...character in The Falls daydreams about the greatness that has somehow eluded him: "His childhood dreams had been so bright, he had hoped for so much, it couldn't be true that he was a nobody, although, on the other hand, what kind of somebody spends the best years of his life swearing at a photocopier...
...Down syndrome, for example, victims somehow acquire a third copy of the chromosome, whereas most people have just two. But exactly which of the 225 or so genes on chromosome 21 trigger the scores of physical and cognitive symptoms typical of the syndrome--or whether it's simply DNA overload from having an extra chromosome--isn't clear, nor will it be without lots of additional research...
...Mart this fiscal year will take inclose to $200 billion in revenue. Think for a minute about how much money that is. If you sold something expensive, like cars averaging $20,000, you'd have to sell 10 million a year every year to reach it. If you could somehow sell something to every man, woman and child on earth, that something would have to cost $33, which is more than many of them could afford. And they'd have to buy it again every year...
...FORTUNE 500 we publish next April. Barring calamity or another jump in oil prices, the new champ will be Wal-Mart, already the world's largest retailer by a mile. Like some cyborg athlete, Wal-Mart moves at a pace that would kill most of its competitors and somehow keeps it up while growing bulkier...