Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tempting to interpret the trend towards larger blocking groups as indicative of an increasingly fragmented and atomized House community. In this light, the Staff encourages future first-years to limit blocking groups to only their "close friends and potential roommates...
...problem with blocking groups is not their upward trend in size or their unbalanced gender composition. Instead, it is the nebulous conception of a blocking group in itself. Ideally and for the most part, a blocking group should be a group of close friends and potential roommates. Rarely should it be an entire social circle. But the hazy purpose of blocking groups is again not reason to restrict students' ability to choose with whom to live throughout their college years. Rather, it is reason for the Houses, upperclass students and first-year proctors to clarify the purpose of blocking groups...
Since Operation Allied Force began a month ago, B-2 bombers from this Air Force base in Knob Noster, Mo., have been making a pressure-packed debut. Adding to the stress of combat has been the close eye of B-2 skeptics. But speaking to TIME last week in their first interviews, pilots say the machine has been a dream to fly. The men described taking off over the soybean fields on 30-hr. flights, often made by pairs of planes, with two men aboard each. One sometimes naps while the other monitors the plane's computer systems, which...
...nothing beats an overnight expedition. Fifth-grader Ryan Gregson spots a herd of deer in a meadow and exclaims, "Wow, I didn't know there were so many deer so close to where I live." And he won't soon forget...
...Westwood, Will, a student senator, has turned much of his attention to Florida's successful youth antismoking campaign, but he's stayed close to the recycling operation he started. Whenever he travels to Atlanta to see his grandparents, who don't recycle, he bags up their cans and hauls them back to his bins and crushers in Gainesville, but not before he tries to see an Atlanta Braves game. Will is a big baseball fan, and he would just love to keep Gainesville's schoolyards as green and clean as the field his idols play...