Word: containment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reality, Arens doesn't know for sure whether the injections she has been giving herself every other day contain beta interferon. As one of 372 participants in a clinical trial overseen by 11 medical centers in the U.S. and Canada, Arens realizes she may have been randomly assigned to a control group and given a harmless placebo, in this case saline solution. But some telltale side effects -- chills and inflammation at the injection site -- suggest, to Arens at least, that she has been receiving the genuine article...
...Rolfe Division will contain Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Brown, while the Gehrig Division will include Cornell, Columbia, Princeton, and Pennsylvania. The division winner will play a best-of-three playoff for the Ivy title...
...novels generate the same suspense, as the readers churn through the pages to reveal the secret of the one incisive encounter. The black dogs of the title fulfill the function of Kurtz, revealing for an instant the black heart of mankind, the seed of savagery we all contain. Most of all, McEwan's work reflects the powerful, emotive, and yet strangely rambling, subdued prose of Heart of Darkness...
...when they mean little, are tossed out indiscriminately ("best comedy of the year" in February). A reference to the new decade always sounds impressive ("the love story of the '90s"). Gary Franklin, of Los Angeles' KCOP-TV, grades films on a 1-to-10 scale that can no longer contain his ecstasy. Chaplin and Alive! recently got a 10+, and Beauty and the Beast even managed an 11. Pat Collins, who reviews for New Jersey's WWOR-TV, gushes that Falling Down is "the first real movie of the '90s," thus raising the question of what she considered...
Gina V. Sanchez '94, one of the co-chairs of Eliot's house committee, said Eliot does not contain the "traditional stuffy atmosphere" and that the stereotype was "something that we all poke...