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Word: irregularities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Currently, filters must be reached through guests' rooms and consequently are only accessible at irregular times. With a new hatch system that provides easier access to the filters, the filters can be changed at times when no cooking is taking place...

Author: By Roberto Bailey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Faculty Club Hearing Postponed | 10/28/1998 | See Source »

...Hate crime laws violate the First Amendment." Hate crime laws don't punish constitutionally protected free speech, only acts. Moreover, using the words of a perpetrator to establish motive is neither new nor irregular. Criminal law has always taken into account the motivation of an offender...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hate Crime Laws Appropriate | 10/21/1998 | See Source »

...essay grader can't not judge style or originality--the program works best with focused, fact-or content-based essay topics in disciplines like history, science and economics, Foltz said. In fact, highly original essays are rejected by the computer as irregular and must be graded by hand...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Software Eases Essay Grading | 9/11/1998 | See Source »

...answers come erratically, as a scrap of conversation here or a deathbed confession there, and Deane's irregular structure mirrors the gradual unfurling of the family secrets. A series of brief vignettes spanning more than twenty years, unevenly spaced and heavily concentrated in the days of the narrator's extreme youth, reveals information as the narrator learns it, Deane writes with all the immediacy and intrusive intimacy of a diarist, and even the wildest, most implausible developments in the tale seem like mere fact when conveyed in his narrator's steady voice...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deane's New Novel Explores N. Ireland Tensions | 6/26/1998 | See Source »

...also attach themselves to other warm-blooded creatures, including people. Typically, within a month of a bite, a large, bull's-eye rash shows up at the site, accompanied by chills, fever, headache and painful joints. Untreated, the infection may eventually lead to severe arthritis, facial palsy and irregular heartbeat. Deaths, however, are rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ticks Are Back | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

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