Word: element
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Paul M. Secunda '93, who is active in the Eliot drama society and on the house committee, said that Bacon has been a dynamic element in house life...
Sony. Toyota. Honda. Mitsubishi. Nikon. Ricoh. Toshiba. There seems no escaping Japan in the U.S. these days. But just try to escape America in Japan, especially if you are young and yearn to be hip in Tokyo. America is an essential element of growing up urban in Japan...
Although Sakurauchi's comment that 30 percent of the American workforce cannot read it surely outrageous, it does contain an element of truth. As Time magazine pointed out recently, nearly 15 percent of American workers are functionally illiterate. And many high school graduates go into the job market without adequate training in math, science and communications--skills critical to today's economy...
...element of surprise also creates some excitement in the kitchen, the bakers say. "As soon as you walk in the door, you don't know what to expect,"Sanchez-Ramirez says about opening the building inthe morning...
...Burns makes his subject come alive by focusing on three crucial people. First is Lee DeForest, who patented the key invention that spawned the radio age -- the three-element vacuum tube -- but emerges as something of a self- promoter and con man. Edwin Howard Armstrong, who made important refinements in De Forest's invention and battled him endlessly in the patent courts, is the film's tragic hero: a bullheaded visionary defeated by people smarter and more ruthless than he. David Sarnoff, the founder of NBC, is one of those ruthless people ("I don't get ulcers; I give them...