Word: continuum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contentious issues in American life, there is something resembling an emerging ideological consensus on one thing: some kids are beyond help. You can hear it even when talking with Attorney General Janet Reno, who believes crime has its roots among neglected children. She still stresses the need for "a continuum" of government attention that begins with prenatal care and includes the school system, housing authorities, health services and job-training programs. But she also recognizes that the continuum will sometimes end in an early jail cell. "It's imperative for serious juvenile offenders to know they will face a sanction...
Quite impressively, Fretwork maintains a stylistic and artistic continuum throughout the years. One could be fairly easily convinced that this recording was made in one continuos period, rather than three...
...that the students of the Class of '94, who represent every state in our union, whose politics cover every last inch on the right-left continuum, nonetheless agree that health care, lawsuits and investment banking are the only viable ways to lead their lives? If it is true that we at Harvard represent the elitest of the elite, where then are our next generation of painters and professors, engineers and editors, farmers and soldiers...
...looks convincingly technical, apart from its symmetrical, aesthetic appeal. Normally first seen in high school math textbooks, the three intersecting circles help clarify the mess of human sexuality that people cannot seem to avoid. As the caption reads, the diagram presents an "alternative sexual response cycle--an ongoing continuum of pleasure, orgasm and ecstasy." Although this continuum requires some further explanation, the visual aid provides a critical framework for discussion. To corroborate the scientific nature of the writing, the book includes an appendix with flow charts, graph and sample questionnaires...
...vagrants, these finished in November, and professors who can name every student in lecture. Characters who pass through the Winthrop House gate several times never once emerge in the same place. Granted, Winthrop House is full of quirks, but a gate poised by a rip in the space-time continuum is not, as far as we at Dartboard know, one of them...