Word: domains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rising like a restored castle out of the Florida flats. The timing is impeccable. As the Reagan Administration lumbers into place, so too this other new machine-huge, untried, ambitious (albeit with limited maneuverability); designed to aid national defense, to boost Big Business, to restore U.S. eminence in a domain once its own; a reviver of old dreams; a boon to upward mobility. The same question applies to both vehicles: Will they...
...nothing more than a hole in the wall, giving onto another room, which seems to be filled with a gray-green mist. The surprise of this dissolution of substance into absence is so intense, and yet so subtly realized, that it becomes magical; a trick enters the domain of the aesthetic...
...female underachievement in math has been generally chalked up to sexism: the low expectations of parents and teachers are said to produce a 'reverse Pygmalion effect." According to Educator Elizabeth Fennema and Psychologist Julia Sherman, in an article on the subject, "Sexual stereotyping of mathematics as a male domain operates through a myriad of subtle influences from peer to parent and within the girl herself...
...Arrigo refused a state offer of $107,000 for the plot, but he offered to lease the land to the state until Carey left office. New York officials turned down that proposal and moved to confiscate D'Arrigo's property under the power of eminent domain...
...Roller says, "when you think of Army surplus, you think of only a fraction of what the Federal Government generates." Roaming his domain, Roller glows as he handles a 400-ft. roll of computer paper. "These are neat," he says. "Schools can use them for drawing paper...