Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservative view is that in this instant, the council changed from a productive, student-oriented group to a political organization concerned with shaking an angry liberal fist at the world...
...socially undesirable sophomores, juniors and seniors had lost their place of instant acceptance and belonging, but at least the Major heard the unrestrained roar of all first-years in conversation morning, noon and night. He could rejoice with the triumphant undergrad whose well-flung butter pat hit his relatively inexpensive ceiling. As the decades went by, and the voices of women and minority students began to contribute to the din, I like to think the old boy was grinning under that mustache...
Consider for a moment a simple scientific fact: at the instant conception occurs, all that any microscope or documentary can show you is a single cell, dividing upon itself again and again, not taking recognizably human shape for many days. The reality of cellular infancy belies the genetic reality that exists fully at that same moment of conception. Painted to complex perfection on its landscape of DNA are the characteristics and flaws, talents and proclivities of an individual. These are facts that science has given us. This is a truth that the arbitrary nature of the Roe V. Wadetrimester system...
...about Jan.20, students will be able to search the giant Lexis-Nexis document database from the comfort and warmth of their own rooms. Gone will be the days of all-too-brief computer appointments in the library and the frustration of not having access to information at the instant it's needed. We couldn't be happier...
...play are, as critics have stated, difficult to capture; they are inherently slippery. Billings' flighty and fidgety Cleopatra, the play's only recongnizable character, is marvelously coquettish; Cleopatra--an Egyptian Scarlett O'Hara--is as equally lovable as she is despicable. She seductively coos to Antony in one instant, while in the next scene she drives a messenger to his knees with a gun to his head after he delivers bad news...