Word: existing
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David Sullivan, a Law School graduate running for city council on the slate, said "the system is bad in that sense--it creates an incentive to find minor points of difference and then blow them up." Sullivan, as well as the other convention candidates, insists that although the tensions exist, the Convention unity can withstand them. Every Convention candidate interviewed said that he or she can work with any candidate on the slate...
Harvard's relationship with Cambridge is difficult to define. From the ninth floor view of the Harvard Planning Office, in Holyoke Center, Cambridge would not in fact exist if it were not for Harvard's existence. City Councilor Saundra Graham, however, is continually annoyed by the ways Harvard has moved into the community, taking away its tax base and increasing the rent. "I have always been against Harvard," Graham said at a speech last week, adding, "The University has allowed its students into Cambridge and they've pushed out our working class...
...Harrison say they expect the NYU program will help to break down the unnecessary barriers that currently exist between the corporate and academic worlds...
...Indians, there are two minds. There are two civilizations. There are two ways of being. The Indians desire to co-exist with white civilization; yet they have no pretenses; they do not want to join white civilization. The line is a fine one; it is easily drawn too taut...
...complete (and only) full-scale guide to this large, bizarre, highly diversified and totally imaginary world. It is also one of the funniest and most brilliant parodies of scientific jargon and scholarship ever published. Standard verdure grows and decays; Lionni's plants do neither. Instead, writes Lionni, they exist outside of time, "like a memory that has taken on actuality." These matterless, insubstantial greens, he notes, "though impervious to any violent acts of nature, disintegrate at the least contact with an object alien to their normal environment, dissolving into dust and leaving only a chemically inert white powder." Spotting...