Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appointment of Judith H. Kidd as assistant dean for public service comes as a shock and a rebuff to students involved with public service at the College. We are dumbfounded by the decision itself and also surprised at how the administration has handled its aftermath...
...immediate aftermath of Israeli Prime Minister Rabin's assassination, many Jews have expressed their shock and disbelief at the fact that the murder was carried out by one Jew operating against another Jew. This expression of shock does not only overshadow the human aspect of the tragedy but also ignores the fact that the problem is not primarily the Jewishness of the perpetrator, but that Rabin was murdered by a fellow Israeli, a fellow citizen, a voting member of the Israeli democracy...
Once the scientists factored in aerosols, their models began looking more like the real world. The improved performance of the simulations was demonstrated in 1991, when they successfully predicted temperature changes in the aftermath of the massive Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines. A number of studies since have added to the scientists' confidence that they finally know what they're talking about--and can predict what may happen if greenhouse gases continue to be released into the atmosphere unchecked. Just last week, a report appeared in Nature that firmly ties an increase in the severity of U.S. rainstorms...
...repulsed by what Quentin Tarantino does, beware; "Seven" makes "Resevoir Dogs" look like "101 Dalmations." This movie is in an almost-new realm of brutality, and gets there not by showing needles slammed through breastbones, as Tarantino is wont to do, but rather by showing the aftermath, giving description and letting you imagine things that are infinitely worse...
...anyone doubts the intensity with which Ivy coaches recruit against one another, one need look no further than the aftermath of the unfortunate incident last spring, when a prospective recruit was beaten by another player during a campus visit. According to several alumni athletic boosters, other league coaches did not miss a beat in using the incident to convince high school players that Cambridge was not the place for them...