Word: bows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scientist--or the gambler--in us has to admit that there is something in what McDermott says. Falling in love can seem fairly random, involving routines that could be applied to anyone: stares, smiles, witty remarks, revealing remarks, endearing remarks, hands touch, lips touch. We know the drill. Bow to your partner, curtsy to your corner. Suddenly your corner becomes your partner. Are the stars out tonight? I only have eyes...
...some of the West's technological have-nots (and its rather-nots, like Fryer), Y2K offers the opportunity for an accelerated game of catch-up, a long-awaited revenge against the nerds. A vast assortment of basic skills given short shrift in the information age--from bow hunting to saw-blade sharpening--may well be transformed into lucrative careers. And while formerly high-paid website designers are frantically distilling potable water from the radiators of their Lexuses, men like master woodworker Dick Murphy will be relaxing before a roaring woodstove, sated by a meal of roasted venison chops. "This...
...rejects "any suggestion that his status as a University official inflates his influence with other faculty members." Professor Thompson believes that "It is false and insulting to suggest that my colleagues in the government department would defer to me or anybody else in that way. Tenured faculty don't bow to anyone...
...front of their colleagues in the department, tenured faculty are asked by the Office of the Dean to write confidential letters for the eyes only of the deans, the ad hoc committee, and the president. The use of the confidential letter reflects the fear that otherwise tenured faculty will bow to pressures from their colleagues and fail to express their candid opinions to officers of the administration...
...House proceedings were admittedly rancorous. Now, however, the Senate has the chance to do the right thing and follow constitutional procedure by putting the president on trial. Senators should not bow to public opinion by trying to find the quickest...