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Word: gray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Abramian, a small man with gray hair, dresses in a baseball cap and plaid shirt--much like the other students in the Northeastern University library...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Abramian Awaits Harvard Millions | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

While the 50-year-old immigrant was represented by two lawyers who had never handled an anti-discrimination case before, Harvard hired the venerable Boston law firm Ropes & Gray to assist in their defense...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Abramian Awaits Harvard Millions | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

...Achieva insists that it only gives guidance and makes students do Internet and college-guide research and their own writing. Still, Andy Lutz, a vice president at the Princeton Review, admits the distinction is tricky. "There's a line between suggesting and rewriting," he says. "But it's a gray area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guidance For Sale | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Maybe it was fallout from the gray matter that conceived E=mc2 or the fact that it was the week after a full moon, but something prompted an outburst of weirdness in response to the June 28 Science story on Einstein's brain. The first symptom was the declaration from Missouri's self-proclaimed "Prophet King" Kenna Farris: "I would allow science to study my brain, as Einstein's is being studied, but I am taking it with me after I rise from the dead." Next came word from a Michigan woman who claimed, "Like Einstein, I am an avatar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patrick Smith's Mailbag | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...times pulling out charts like a college professor. His passion seemed pretty real, to me at least. At some point in this campaign, though, he decided not to sound wonky--which is probably a mistake if you are, in fact, a wonk. Instead of posing, Gore might follow Gray Davis. As California's Lieutenant Governor, Davis was in a similar bind--second banana, dull, familiar. Instead of feigning charisma, Davis ran for Governor last year as, well, dull and experienced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Search for Authenticity | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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