Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other than Cerf's continued direct involvement with the show, as the years have progressed, the Harvard contingent has become less central to the show...
...central issues of the year were the spread of communism and the implementation of the Marshall Plan, and students were as confident then as they are now that the world cared deeply about the events unfolding on the Harvard stage...
...violence, Britain, the U.S. and the European Community poured money into Northern Ireland to fund community groups and self-help schemes. Local agitators, including dozens of former prisoners, were given offices and mobile phones in the hope that they would begin worrying about funding targets, not bombing targets. In central Londonderry, every other street corner seems to house the offices of some worthy center dispensing advice, trying to foster peace. Teresa McKeever, the manager of a parent-and-toddler association in Creggan, a Catholic district in Londonderry, brings mothers and children from her area to join in a weekend...
Protestant and Catholic businessmen and -women work together and do some socializing, but even that is constricted by geography. More than 20,000 Protestants have fled the central section of the city on the west bank of the River Foyle for the safety of the largely Protestant communities on the east bank. So drastic was the exodus that some in the Catholic community feared the west bank would become entirely Catholic. They sent Christmas cards to residents in the Fountain area, the last remaining Protestant enclave, encouraging them to stay...
Even in such distinguished company, Lisbon's Oceans Pavilion stands out. Its titanic 1.2 million-gal. central tank and four side tanks (holding an additional 300,000 gal.) are home to 8,000 specimens of 250 species, arranged so that predators and prey seem to swim side by side. Visitors to the aquarium set off on a grand, circumnavigable tour around the world's oceans, past sharks, bluefish, wreckfish and more. Along the way they pass through naturalistic-looking coastal exhibits that represent four major littoral ecologies: rocky North Atlantic cliffs with cavorting razorbills and murres; subpolar grassy banks populated...