Word: erects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impractical as undergraduates so long as we are all the more practical in our career choices. Oxford acknowledges a certain amount of specialization initially, but is trying to fight the tide of careerism in the long-run. Strangely enough, the school that allows undergraduates to study business refuses to erect an edifice designated exclusively for that topic, and the school that discourages pre-professionalism among undergraduates is home to a "B-school" with the most majestic of campuses...
...shelf. Kirsten Bakis' supposition in Lives of the Monster Dogs (Farrar Straus & Giroux; 291 pages; $23) is that in the year 2008, a tribe of large dogs, surgically and genetically altered, with prosthetic hands and voice boxes and with the intelligence of humans, arrives in Manhattan. The dogs walk erect, using canes, and wear costumes patterned after military uniforms and ball gowns of 19th century Prussia...
...University promises to reroute exhaust, replace fans and erect sound mufflers...
...continually training our support staff, but as new people come on, there needs to be additional training," Rosenthal says. "The most important thing is to not erect barriers between students and the medical care because many times you don't know if the situation is serious...
...really want to know what is in it, applies to commercially-raised beef. In an attempt to protect American consumers against Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it is preparing to ban the use of animal parts in livestock feed. The measure is intended to erect a barrier which will help prevent any possible transmission of the illness from the feeding trough to the dinner table. "If we don't take preventive action today, we may regret it three to four years down the road," explained FDA Commissioner David Kessler. "By saying that cattle and sheep...