Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, students say they are concerned that the inclusive spirit of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), which used to control funding for women's groups on campus, will be lost in the closed-door process...
...Implicit in this "humor" is the assertion that the endangerment suffered by minorities in general, and queers in particular, is also illusory. They suffer discrimination; we only cry it. We are at pains to note that no conservative has lost his job, been disowned by his family, expelled from his community of faith, barred from marriage or adoption, had every aspect of his sexual life criminalized--or, certainly, been brutally beaten to death--based solely on his political sympathies...
...grabbed a stout piece of rope from Hamer's, and he set straight to work. Throwing the rope up and over the strong limb, he started trying to recall the right knot--he mustn't fail at this too. But with all his years of studying scripture, he'd lost the knotting skills of his childhood on his father's scratch farm (Judas was the only one of the Twelve from outside the fishing villages of Galilee...
...with great interest that I read the article on Henry Grunwald's book Twilight, about his battle with macular degeneration [BOOKS, Nov. 15]. Having lost my vision in midlife, I can empathize with Grunwald and understand his daily struggle. I would like others with vision problems to know that reading machines are available that convert the printed pages of books, magazines and newspapers into speech through technology that scans the printed text. This is an absolute blessing and eases the burden of sight loss, affording blind people the opportunity to enjoy topical printed material without additional human assistance. CYNTHIA GROOPMAN...
...BRIGHT SIDE OF BONDS The year 1999 has been a tough one for bond investors. With interest rates going up, bond prices have declined. But higher bond yields also create opportunities for fixed-income investors. A tax swap--in which you sell a bond that has lost some of its value and then buy a similar bond in order to take a capital loss--allows you to realize the losses on your bond portfolio. "It's the first really good opportunity for a tax swap since 1994," says William Hornbarger, a fixed-income strategist at A.G. Edwards. A bond swap...