Word: facet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major facet of the masters' proposed changes was a new building expected to accomodate 85 to 100 students, which would alleviate a housing crunch in some present rooms and allow North to bring its size up to the level of other Houses...
...space travel: the initial queasiness, or "space adaptation syndrome," that seems to afflict about 50% of all astronauts in their first few days of weightlessness. The Challenger team members share an office at the Johnson Space Center. They practice endlessly in the shuttle cockpit simulator, rehearsing every conceivable facet of the mission, including possible emergencies. They have come to be as close-knit as a family, even to the extent of protecting Ride from an overly inquisitive press. When she quietly married fellow Astronaut Steve Hawley last July (he will fly on the twelfth shuttle flight with Resnik), her Challenger...
SUCH IS ONE facet of the refusal: national vanity. It is only natural for countries as economically powerful and historically great as Britain and France to want to be militarily strong as well. But there is a more ominous motivation for refusal--one which the alliance must immediately address...
...know, the computer is sweeping every facet of academic, business, and daily life under its domain. Every firm, university, and household which turns so much as an eye to the future is currently investing a substantial portion of its budget to the acquisition, augmentation, or maintenance of a computer system. Universities are leading the charge, some attempting to provide every dormitory room with a terminal, others increasing fundraising and endowments for improvement of computer facilities...
...surroundings--the only hard part was getting the luminescence on canvas. To that end, Porter used a nearly fluorescent palette of pastel-lime pinks, greens and blues, as well as a special wax-based matte surface in order to capture the illumination he desired. He then explored every facet of interior design and its relationship to the outdoors, his painting always done with an impeccable air of cleanliness and calm spaciousness evident, for example, in the autumn leaves, long shadows and golden afternoon sun of October Interior (1963) or again in a unique look at furniture and the glow...