Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question of your time horizon," says one biology professor, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "So when do you reproduce [experiments]--a week from now, a month from now, a year from now? A year later, it's an effort to go back. Some people don't want to make the effort...
...newcomer to the endorsement game may be on the horizon. Some members of the Cambridge Alliance, a non-profit educational group, are founding a separate group that is likely to be endorsing candidates for office...
...light like a Doric temple; the lines of shadow are a burning visionary yellow; everything, from the angular dog to the ragged trees, is seen in sharp patches, and yet one's eye feels bathed in atmosphere, all the way out to the blue island on the remote horizon. As in all Porter's best paintings, the structure is locked together by affinities of shape, natural rhymes of form and color. You can't paint like this without deep cultivation as well as talent...
...West. If you are willing to carry your house on your back, turtle-fashion, the entire Western high country is yours for ski mountaineering. Perhaps because tent, stove, food, fuel and avalanche beeper weigh 65 to 70 lbs., you and your partner are likely to have the horizon to yourself, with (the thought occurs spontaneously after a seven-hour, 4,000-ft. climb) no other fools in sight...
...Coaching was always on my horizon," Doyle says. "But I wanted a school with students who are focused on squash. And no school had a better squash tradition than Harvard...