However, when friends say things like "if a night out isn't on Facebook, it hasn't happened" with however much drunken irony, it begs the question whether, rather than making student living easier, social media is actually a barrier to fun.
Andrew Tyrie, the committee's chair, said the estimates had an "arbitrary air of precision", and the Eurosceptic Conservative backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg asked whether, rather than allow the independent Office for Budget Responsibility to make the forecasts, Osborne had "taken back control so that you can fiddle the figures".
Mr. Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, who said he would request documents from 30 colleges, also questioned whether, rather than containing a few bad apples, "the entire orchard" was "contaminated by a business model that churns students — provokes the kind of recruitment and unethical conduct we saw through the G.A.O., because of the need to increase profits and answer to Wall Street".
Republicans are stuck debating whether, rather than how, the federal government ought to be involved in education, while Democrats are squeezed between superintendents, school boards and teachers' unions that want money with no strings, and activists with little patience for concerns about federal overreach.
To measure the degree of specificity, the interviewees were asked to state whether "rather few" or "most" of the skills developed during employer-financed training could be of use in other firms, too.
What remains is the contract dispute: whether Rather was utilized appropriately in the remaining months of his deal as a correspondent on 60 Minutes.
To test whether frataxin overexpression directly protects from induction of DNA damage, or whether frataxin rather promotes DNA repair, we induced oxidative DNA damage by photosensitization.
Indeed, it is widely unknown whether implants actually rise as metastasis of the primary ovarian neoplasm or whether they rather represent in situ lesions of extraovarian tissue.
It is questionable whether appointment rather than election to the Senate carries reliable political dividends.
Since Sept. 11, news executives at competing networks have been wondering whether Mr. Rather would return to the country, and he has.
The questions raised about that jury's actions are part of a debate about whether jurors, rather than judges or regulators, should be entrusted with punishing corporate wrongdoing.
