Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics, may have announced his resignation in January, but the repercussions of his move--particularly his citing of the "strong sense of alienation" among graduate students at the time--surfaced again last week and emphasized that problems in the Economics Department will probably not disappear any time soon...
...Pick Courses Carefully. There's a reason why preppies and jocks dominate parties--they know all the guts, Pick up the Confi Guide, but follow Topsiders and broad shoulders the first week of classes. (After that, they seem to disappear.) On the other hand, avoid freshmen. Go for graduate seminars and 200-level courses...
...been denied all her life, a room of her own, time to herself, wealthy girlfriends to lavish clothes on her and teach her how to be a lady men to admire her. This topsy-turvey world works an instant transformation on Clara. The haggard lines painted on her face disappear overnight and with them the shabby working-class hausfrau; in her place stands an elegant fashion plate who abandons her peasant taciturnity for sparkling wit and high spirits, reads Anna Karenina and 1 Prontessi Spossi, swoons to romantic violin concerti and discovers that she has no desire ever to return...
...named Big Karl whom she met at a barn dance. He promised freedom and adventure, but the dream went unrealized: for seven years she followed him up and down Norway, always adrift and usually starving. She worked at various times as a farmhand and lumberjack, only to watch him disappear and squander her money...
Others argue for a policy called "triage." Deciding with the help of statistics and other scientific tools which nations are most like to survive, which are most likely to starve and disappear, and which are on the borderline, we can then direct our efforts with precision, leaving those most able to help themselves to struggle unaided, helping those on the borderline with massive assistance, and leaving those nations that are presently most destitute to their fate: massive starvation...