Word: chimeras
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Downs' name must have been pricey. Chasing the ever elusive chimera of a prize, she ordered all sorts of overpriced junk: flimsy telephone-answering machines, tennis bracelets, money clips, hair spray and what was supposed to be two mink coats. "They looked like they'd been made with rat skins," says Downs. "I just put the stuff in a room and closed the door...
...Mehta reported in his article, only one in 500 students makes use of the Student-Faculty Judicial Board (according to CLUH). The option of the Student-Faculty Board is a chimera: Students who try to have their cases heard by the SFJB are often stonewalled, students are frequently counseled against the SFJB by their senior tutors (I know I was) and some students who request the Student-Faculty Judicial Board (SFJB) are denied it. A conflict of interests is institutionalized In Harvard's disciplinary procedure. It just does not make sense for the individuals who choose whether your case will...
...revolutionary mood is understandable when you pair the severe U.N. economic sanctions with the government's preoccupation with protecting its internal security. Their priority is the struggle for sustenance for themselves and their families, a daily struggle that leaves little room for other than dreaming about the abstract chimera of political change...
...after the verdict, Americans had a chance to hear that message again when hundreds of thousands of black men marched in Washington in a day of atonement and an assertion of pride. Cochran did not attend, but he was there in spirit, one of the reasons, along with the chimera of a Colin Powell presidency, that many participants had the optimism to march...
...empty threats, mounting rancor among the allies and a record on Bosnia so altogether contradictory as to very nearly beggar understanding? What really stood out in red on the Brussels agenda was the unsettling truth that the crisis is about not only Bosnia but also that much vaunted chimera, the new world order...