Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's array of orchestras, as well as the variety of independent groups on campus, offer any musician a chance to perform...
...equal, overabundant opportunity is paralyzing. This effect is heightened at Harvard, which (excepting such anomalies as finals clubs) approaches the ideal of a meritocracy. What will I do? What should I do? What can I do? We have a pathological need for reassurance that is caused by an endless array of opportunities...
...before deployed in anti-tobacco suits, called "unjust enrichment." Rather than suing on behalf of specific sick individuals, a strategy that has yet to succeed, the states are claiming they are tobacco's hit-and-run victims, stuck paying out billions of taxpayer dollars each year to treat the array of health problems wrought by smoking. In other words, says one frustrated tobacco-industry lawyer, "the states are taking the position that they don't have to prove anything except the company sold the cigarettes." This denies tobacco's advocates all their favorite defenses--that the individual's health problems...
...ballot (such as Arizona), or the first and second ballot (South Carolina), or until the candidate dies or withdraws or releases his charges. Some states allow a delegate to break a pledge if, as in the case of Alabama, two-thirds of the delegation agree to follow suit. The array of possibilities makes a hard number of committed delegates impossible to estimate, but party lawyers believe that slightly more than half are not bound on the first ballot. No one knows for sure. "And that leads to the question of whether these rules have any enforceability should some delegates...
...This is just for publicity and to help cultivate support, but the actual work is done in meetings," said ESAC member Alex H. Cho '96, pointing to a table laden with an array of books on ethnic concerns and a petition asking for a more diverse curriculum. "This is just so people know we're still here and the issues are still here...