Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a campus-wide referendum in 1985 showing that 75 percent of students prefer knowing their lottery numbers before submitting house choice has led to a change in policy since that time.
By the time students have completed their undergraduate education, about 80 percent will have had sexual intercourse. And since the period between infection and the appearance of symptoms is usually 7.8 years, "students will be leaving college infected without knowing [whether they have been infected]," Lyman said.
At least he had the satisfaction of knowing he made the shot.
They have each contributed a short film to New York Stories, probably , knowing as they signed their contracts that their work, when combined, would not be judged for its total effect, which is delightful, but scored like some unlikely Olympic event. One imagines reviewers grouped around the pool, holding up...
Allen's method is different. In Oedipus Wrecks, his efficiency is that of the perfectly practiced anecdotalist, not wasting a moment on irrelevant detail, yet knowing when to linger over the important ones. In this brisk vignette, Allen himself plays Sheldon, victim of a kind of transcendental Jewish-mother joke...