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Word: grounding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...making generalities, but I think somestudents may wonder in the end whether they wantto belong here and ground themselves in the worldof Harvard," says Hernandez-Gravelle...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Proctors: Addressing Adjustment Issues? | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...there's something a bit trite, a bit haven't-I-heard-this-before about singing slogans like, "Why are the missiles called peacekeepers/When they're aimed to kill?" Well, why? Does Chapman think she's the first person to wonder about Reaganspeak aloud? Are we breaking new ground here? Nothing wrong with her message, but it would be refreshing if people stopped praising it as if it were prophetic, because it's not. It's just the product of a privileged Black woman who went to boarding school and Tufts University and now wants to draw on her long...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Where's Rock's Sincerity? | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...leaky tank in the ground system caused a further delay Friday. NASA temporarily halted fueling and sent out a special team to tighten a fitting on an oxygen tank...

Author: By Susanne Kohl, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Shuttle Lifts Off on Military Mission | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

After Welch announced that the vehicle was in very clean shape, the Defense Department stopped publicly broadcasting conversations between the crew and ground control for security reasons...

Author: By Susanne Kohl, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Shuttle Lifts Off on Military Mission | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

...should administrators be so quick to dismiss the fact that less than 4 percent of the survey's respondents were Black students--a figure less than half of the College-wide representation of the least satisfied racial group in the survey? Do facts like these really suggest that "no ground has been lost" in race relations...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Harvard Gets a B-And Is Satisfied | 12/1/1988 | See Source »

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