Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undercounting any hearing AIDS group would deem ridiculous. Serious assays now start at 300; estimates of HIV-positive deaf run from 7,000 to as high as 26,000. But the deaf world's varied demographics and idiosyncratic lines of communication conspire against precision. "We have tried to collect our own statistics," laments Kennedy. "We have tried and failed...
...daring bet on Paquin, who played Holly Hunter's charming, willful child in The Piano, made all the difference. And whoever gambled that an 11-year-old New Zealander with no previous acting experience would beat out Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Winona Ryder and Rosie Perez deserved to collect...
...historians because they embody so perfectly the courage and blind arrogance of 19th century Britain, but Subzero and Reepah are simply dreary. And Subzero, picking moodily at the scab of his 20th century conscience, fretting that the Inuit find him contemptible, giving tips on Arctic trekking (down sleeping bags collect moisture and freeze; masturbation at very low temperatures isn't worth the trouble) is just not as interesting to Vollmann's readers as to the author himself...
More important, however, is the fact that the motivation to increase student term bill fees at Harvard should not be based on the amount of money the student governments collect at Boston College, Boston University, Tufts or MIT. "Need" should be defined in real rather than relative terms. What maters isn't how much money the council has, but what it's doing with what...
Menendez attorney won't collect any taxpayer-funded fees...