Word: latch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...collective source of action all across the nation, a huge mobilization of students, raising our voices, coming together, and doing something on a broader scale. In the past, Harvard has really been a hotbed of activism. Harvard does have this name and the media does latch on to that. So if we’re going to stir stuff up, this is where we have a lot of leverage. If 500 Harvard kids get arrested for protesting the war, that will be on the national news, the world media. Nobody is trying to get arrested though...
...ingrained in our culture that no one is to blame? How can one ever know if racism’s to blame when racism still is never quite defined? Ford does offer a glimmer of hope that eventually, maybe one day, these questions will be answered. He does latch onto some specifics about how we can move past playing the race card. He does diagnose the problem of the race card: it hinders our progress in abolishing racism. And he does label the culprit that prevents us from moving forward: the terms of our current racial dialogue. The language...
...They figured out which pieces of the envelope the antibodies latch onto, and that’s a clue for designing something synthetic that you could give to people to stimulate the development of these antibodies,” he said...
...things that was really interesting about the race in New Hampshire was that Romney really tried to make it about cultural issues. He did the gay marriage debate... He did the anti-immigration stuff and that didn't seem to latch on. But with Mike Huckabee entering the race as a real social conservative, how do you think the role of social issues and cultural issues will evolve in the campaign? Some of it is hard to know. In the case of South Carolina... there is the military patriotism et cetera... side of the equation as well. I think that...
...they take pieces and add it to their home values and traditions - creating millions of "Third Cultures." Studies have shows that kids who have spent time abroad are more likely to go to college, to relate to one another despite the influences of vastly differing cultures, and to latch on to one aspect of their culture - in Obama's case African Americanism...