Word: existences
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, few answers exist to address what hasbecome a "crisis of substantial dimensions,"Harvard officials said. They said that thediscussions and the tentative conference aredesigned to find cures for the lack of minoritiesin academia...
...dress and, the play's most symbolic prop, the leather strap. For three hours actors and patients work at making a whole out of their disparate scenes. What emerges is a riveting pastiche in which children are beaten by drunken parents, humiliated by everyone, and, above all, forced to exist in a world of aching loneliness: a child in a wheelchair dreams of riding a bike, another child makes an imaginary phone call to a schoolmate who has rejected him. In the final scene a child is confronted by his tormentors; instead of slinking away, he turns to the audience...
...primarily because of the innovative mechanisms for tracking the bacteria. In addition to turning blue, the bugs have been engineered to resist the antibiotic rifampicin -- a combination of properties that makes it possible to detect the presence of a single Pseudomonas among the billion or so microorganisms that may exist in a thimbleful of soil. Explains Margaret Mellon, manager of the National Wildlife Federation's biotechnology project: "This system is an important advance. In and of itself, it doesn't answer questions about whether bioengineered organisms are in general more or less safe than their natural counterparts. But it allows...
...these residences exist. Funding is scarce and so is staffing. Worse yet, neighborhoods refuse to accept the residents of these homes as neighbors. Zoning laws on non-family cohabitation often bar them from setting up in nice residential areas, shunting them off to dismal commercial zones...
Clearly, if the middle classes--whom rent control supporters allege would move out of Cambridge--themselves oppose rent control, then universal rent control is like parrying with a windmill, protecting against a threat that does not exist. Manhattan-haters can take a deep breath, get a hold of themselves, and sleep secure in the knowledge that Cambridge is safe...