Word: flukes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...genetic makeup and the modern world, for our genes have given us the ability to forge this modern world. They have been built to satisfy our needs, to meet our requirements, to solve our problems. We have evolved to this; the path of human history is not some fluke: it is all that is true; it is who we are. STEPHEN KRIEGER New York City
...even if that doesn't happen, an ominous question remains: What, if anything, does this unnerving spate of extreme weather signify? Is it just a meteorological fluke, a one-season anomaly? Or could it signal a potentially devastating long-term trend? Atmospheric scientist William Gray of Colorado State University fears the answer is the latter...
Educators are excited about new national S.A.T. averages for high school seniors, released today, that top all since the early 1970s. ButTIME's Richard Ostlingreports that analysts are cautious: "It is only about a 3 percent jump, which could just be a statistical fluke." One likely explanation: the two leading test prep courses, Stanley Kaplan and The Princeton Review, report enrollment increases of 10 percent, and test prep book sales are up 25 percent. The results also may exacerbate the "Bell Curve" debate over black student performance, Ostling adds: "The relatively poor showing for blacks raises again the nature versus...
...Democrats in Congress, themselves supported by a corrupt incumbent-protection system, managed to remain entrenched despite the onslaught. Alarmed by Bill Clinton's fluke victory in 1992, Republicans redoubled their organizing efforts. Richly rewarded in 1994, conservatives were elated after breaking the Demcorats' lock on the House of Representatives. And having finally broken into the citadel, the Republicans are now resorting to the old Nixon playbook to ensure that they never have to leave again...
Harvard's annus horribilis has not merely been a fluke, a "bad year;" this year speaks volumes for the type of world in which we find ourselves today, and for the trends of our progress and regression. It should provide us with pause for some careful examination of the state of the world and of how we might do better. A new sense of compassion and unflinching rejection of the trappings of a decadent mass junk culture are thing we should be preaching and pursuing. Educated people learn from their misfortunes and mistakes; they read and interpret the world around...