Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing as quiet and relaxing as an empty beach on a cool spring day. The natives may have learned to ignore the allure of desolate wind-swept beaches. But after half a semester in an urban metropolis, few things are better at making painful memories of failed problem sets disappear...
...disapproval of racial or ethnic slurs, people like Hann will get the picture. If we indicate in ordinary conversations--at parties, in dining halls, in classes--that such epithets are offensive, ridiculous and socially unacceptable, a stigma will become attached to the offenders, and the epithets will begin to disappear. If we indifferently let obnoxious comments slide by, however, we are acting as an accomplice to bigotry. It is our indifference that allows the discrimination to spread...
...Stronger is not a feminist play--Strindberg is commonly considered a misogynist--but it portrays women whose lives are defined by their relations with a man (the unnamed husband of one, who had an affair with the other). As director Sonya Rasminsky '92 says, "if the man were to disappear, these women would have no relationship...
...University has to make a commitment to fund these programs from their own resources," he said. "Otherwise, it looks like the whole thing will just disappear...
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS. Chemical weapons work fast, then disappear. . They were used during the Iran-Iraq war, sometimes with devastating consequences for combatants, but with almost none for the environment. Since the gulf war began, allied planes and missiles have pounded Iraqi chemical- weapons plants, situated about 25 miles northwest of the Shi'ite holy city of Samarra, that manufacture mustard gas and nerve agents. Because the plants are surrounded by a 25-sq.-km (9.6-sq.-mi.) "exclusion zone," the likelihood of a deadly plume invading populated areas is small. Explosives would also tend to break the gases...