Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is another element to living, and that is the forgetting. It is true on a personal level: four years of memories weigh a lot; if we carried them all, it would be difficult to move very far. And it is true on a historical level: the mistakes and half-forgotten dreams of dead political leaders and poets have the potential for over-complexifying our perceptions and rendering necessary change impossible. I am part of a generation that glories in the shades of gray separating right from wrong...
Although similar experiments have been performed in the past, Professor of Physics Gerald Gabrielse and graduate student Anton N. Khabbaz were able to achieve an "unprecedented level of accuracy" in their tests...
...What we were able to do at an unprecedented level of accuracy [was] to tell that the proton and antiproton have the same frequency," Gabrielse said...
Meanwhile, top-level officials from the two institutions have secretly discussed the redefinition of the 119-year-old college, though Radcliffe officials only publicly report that they are engaged in a "comprehensive strategic planning process." The changes would reportedly remove Radcliffe's "college" title. These secret meetings have provoked unnecessary rumor and confusion; the continuing discussions should be open and inclusive of both alumni/ae and students...
Weaned on Washington wisdom, Rowe began to interact with top-level government officials early on and says he has "inhaled what was out there politically" since childhood...