Word: litmus
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...based on that litmus test, Harvard looks to have the balance to again make a run through the ECAC playoffs...
...line for "30 #1 Hits" reads: "Before anybody did anything, Elvis did everything." He certainly knew his job - all of them. He was also a fine instinctive musician, a fast study with a gift for synthesizing what he'd heard into his own style. "He sucked up influences like litmus paper," writes Peter Guralnick in "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley," the first book in a meticulous two-volume biography. "He was SERIOUS about his work. Whenever [Elvis' first manager Bob] Neal went by the house, he found him with a stack of records - Ray Charles...
...political corruption and the domestic economy, the two contestants aren't far apart. But after North Korea's shock confession in October that it was trying to develop nuclear warheads in violation of international accords, the question of how to deal with the dangerous North has become a key litmus test for voters and a central issue of the campaign. In that regard, the candidates are at opposite ends of the spectrum?and Lee, 67, may be on the losing side...
...shoot a love story. She had no idea in which context. But in the aftermath of 9/11, she focused the story increasingly on religious hatred-a subject that became all the more timely when riots broke out in Gujarat in March 2002 and one's faith became a litmus test to decide who lives and who dies. Though the inspiration was macabre, Sen doesn't fill the frames of this delicate work with blood and gore, explaining that she wanted, above all, "to make a very simple film about a man and a woman who fall in love despite religious...
Instead of making child placement decisions based on pernicious stereotypes, social workers should be making decisions on a case-by-case basis with all applicants. There should not be any separate litmus test for gays and lesbians. After all, not all heterosexual couples qualify to be foster or adoptive parents. In fact, not all heterosexuals qualify to be biological parents, as they are the reason why we currently have so many children in the foster care system...