Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...character in the critically acclaimed major motion picture, The Waterboy. There is a sense on the IM field that people need to prove something--to overcome the stigma of IM athletic mediocrity. IM moguls argue, perhaps rightfully so, that the sole purpose of competition is victory. But in the context of Harvard pressures and stresses, really the fun factor of IM athletics should be most prized...
...response to an audience member's question, Carson acknowledged that his work has sparked some controversy. Carson said he thought he was able to place King's words in the proper context, even though he never met the civil rights leader...
...think I'm more aware of the context than most book editors," Carson said. "I've spent more time studying King's [papers] than he spent in his public life producing them...
WASHINGTON: "Free the snippets!" That's the message reporters have worn on buttons since way back on the second day of the Microsoft trial, after Redmond lawyers began to use the defense that the government was taking "snippets of e-mail" and Microsoft memos out of context. Five weeks and a deluge of damning "snippets" later, it's still the company line -- as shown by Bill Gates's interview with the Associated Press late Wednesday, in which the software titan accuses the government of doing its best "to put words in my mouth." Not surprisingly, Gates now says he would...
...Lauder is one of the leading biologists who carry out experimental studies of animal function in an evolutionary context," said Andrew Biewener, professor of biology and director of the Concord Field Station...