Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many students are not aware of the opportunities available to them through the Foundation to shape the discourse on race at Harvard. Based on our conversations and observations in the past four years at Harvard, we feel that students often perceive the Foundation as a limited, and primarily cultural, instrument of the University that puts on "song-and-dance" cultural shows and invites high-profile speakers to campus, but does little to foster day-to-day relations and social interactions between students of different backgrounds...
...mortgage you hold on your house to the items you've charged on your credit card, will become part of a giant, interconnected financial universe. And each piece of your superportfolio, called a wealth account, will be understood not simply as a "stock" or a "bond" but as an instrument designed to match your financial needs with the available options. In the same way a FORTUNE 500 treasurer may use derivatives to balance his or her need for pesos and yen, wealth accounts will precisely balance your demand for investment and consumption. Says Christos Cotsakos, CEO of online brokerage group...
...then took evasive action. "I tried to remedy the Ridge," she claims, "but it was too deep." As Yin gives her explanation, she reaches into her desk drawer and brandishes a large pair of scissors--though not the same instrument of evil that created the Ridge. "Sarah," she says nonchalantly, "you have a weird long hair." Kennedy feels for the rogue strand, and then Yin reaches over to cut it. The cycle continues...
...with the tank showed us another face, so to speak, of the camera and gave us an instance in which the image did not cut humanity down to size but elevated and affirmed it, serving as an instrument for democracy and justice. Instead of making the lofty trivial, as it so often seems to do, the image made the passing eternal and assisted in the resistance of an airbrushed history written by the winners. Technology, which can so often implement violence or oppression, can also give a nobody a voice and play havoc with power's vertical divisions by making...
...while Russell--a dark figure--was silhouetted against the stage lights. After he awaited the long introduction, with one swaying motion Russell presented himself clearly with the unique and melodious tone of the clarinet. Sixteenth-note runs effortlessly double-tongued in this Allegro, Russell had complete control over his instrument, fingers moving rapidly yet delicately on the keys. Sixteenth run after sixteenth run, Russell set up the orchestra for a colorful and vivid interlude as he quickly tried to get rid of water stuck...