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Word: acquirees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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But in the past, the College has been wary of allowing the council to acquire private endorsements for the spring event.

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Doles Out Student Group Funding | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Building one is no cakewalk, however. Sites are difficult to acquire. Prospective residents must spend years in long meetings with architects, bureaucrats and neighborhood groups. They must be willing to put up thousands in advance for units that cost slightly more than mainstream condos. (One-bedroom Southside flats went for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle-Class Communes | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Your article on the Pokemon craze [ARTS, Nov. 22] noted many of the reasons that children are drawn to this imaginary world of battling pocket monsters--the charm of the characters, the addictiveness of the game, the challenge of collecting the cards and a child's innate urge to acquire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1999 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

I observed my niece and nephew, ages 7 and 8, as they played with their Pokemon cards with a neighborhood friend. Without knowing it, they were learning and developing some very important life skills--memory, math, spelling, vocabulary, negotiation, competition and teamwork. While there are less materialistic ways to acquire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1999 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

The premise is intriguing: Scarry claims we imagine best when guided word by word, as in great literature. Whatever we imagine without this guidance is dull and unsatisfying compared to the detail and life our imaginings attain under the tutelage of Homer or Flaubert (two of Scarry's favorite examples...

Author: By Patty Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radiant Ignition: Scarry Puts the Psychology Back in Lit-Crit | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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