Word: alphas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fought over in a frenzy." He worried about children getting hurt. But killing pesky bears on public-safety grounds raised ethical problems. So he turned to Searles, a local glass contractor experienced in hunting and trapping who once solved a local coyote problem by killing a marauding pack's alpha males...
What ultimately separates Charlie from Sherman McCoy is his realization, on some level, of just how foolish his egotism and macho stunts are. Despite this self-knowledge, Charlie simply cannot resist defending his alpha male status in any situation. For example, having just been humiliated by his creditors, Croker decides to reassert his control by capturing a rattlesnake barehanded: "He knew that what he was about to do was foolhardy--and he knew he would do it anyway...there was no other choice but the foolhardiest possible...
Citing a quest for "community," a group of undergraduates founded the newest Greek group this fall, starting up a branch of the Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi...
...group, which claims a membership of about 20, is looking to become a full-fledged chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi International. The fraternity has chapters at local colleges including MIT and Brandeis University...
...York themselves, or delegate these tasks to a better-trained corp of omnivorous, rock-eating arthropods from the planet Grock? Please be prepared to comment on these case questions during the informational session, where you will meet employees recently graduated from such schools as Harvard, MIT, Dartmouth and the Alpha-Centauri Mutant Teachers' College...