Word: interact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of racial tension, the guide states. "Some Black students interact with whites as little as possible." Yet it also said that a significant number of Harvard's Black students do wish to "deal with people on a basis broader than color...
...higher. Most experts, though, felt that the war is unlikely to trigger an immediate crisis because the global economic slump continues to hold down energy use. But the energy situation will again become dangerous once world economies start growing. Writes Yergin: "The more likely flash point occurs when accidents interact with a market in which demand is rising, as was discovered in 1973 and 1979. Thus, the world enters the danger zone when economic activity and energy demands are on the upswing...
There is a starting and fierce efficiency in the way upper-middle class adolescents interact socially. Throw 30 of them together sometime in the morning, and by lunch they will have aligned themselves in firm groups, from the trend-setters to the sheep. They all worry about "their records"--high school, not criminal--and each June some 750 do something about it, they show up for the Harvard Summer Session...
...from a series of eerie tremolos and trills reminiscent of the doom-laden flute flutterings in Strauss's opera Salome. The soloists enter with a computer-assisted arpeggio, vibrating and echoing over the six large loudspeakers that are stationed around the hall. Then the soloists and the ensemble interact, responding to each other in the manner of Renaissance polyphony...
...student, to gauge command over a plan of study, and to test commitment to a future career. Most fellowships are not strictly objective and represent an investment in an individual's potential as well as a reward for academic achievements. Hence, applicants must often demonstrate the ability to interact with others, display mature judgment, or meet other requirements which may be stipulated by a will. To assess these qualities, committees must often choose questions designed to elicit an emotional response. Other questions which seem unreasonable to the applicant, for example ones about a student's medical history, may be fully...