Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They [Lexington High School] also won the national contest. Local students dominated all of the areas at the national level," Powell said...
...light of recent events on campus, a great deal of attention has been focused on the epidemic of rape at Harvard and at schools nationwide. It's wonderful to see such a high level of sincere student response to this issue. Some of the reaction has been remarkably well-informed and purposeful, giving us hope for a safer campus environment...
...reactions of other students, however, have displayed an equally remarkable level of ignorance, showing us just how fundamental that ignorance is to preserving the secrecy of acquaintance rape. But even the sentiments and comments falling in the latter category can serve as a starting point for discussion. Questions are being asked, and I'm glad a brave few are searching for answers...
...guide them to their targets. That lets U.S. pilots head for home as soon as they release their payloads. A more sensitive fuse on some weapons--using an accelerometer that measures the weapon's speed--actually "counts" floors and explodes only after it has reached the pre-selected level...
Three days after Canadian Ross Rebagliati took snowboarding's first-ever gold medal in the giant slalom, the I.O.C. asked him to give it back. The 26-year-old from British Columbia had tested positive for marijuana (a urine level of 17.8 nanograms per milliliter, exceeding the 15.0 limit set by snowboarding's Olympic governing body, the International Ski Federation), and after a 3-to-2 vote, the I.O.C.'s executive board recommended he be stripped of his prize. Rebagliati admitted to having smoked in the past, but he asserted that he had not sparked up since April 1997, claiming...