Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...founded but are also representative of an ideology which seeks to defend the legacy of American apartheid and white supremacy: institutional racism. Instead of acknowledging the effects of racism and seeking to propose solutions, Leo brays about "bad publicity" and "questionable evidence." He fears that companies will "lurch toward a quota system," which may prevent discrimination lawsuits but will undermine meritocracy...
...BABY RICHARD" Biological dad fought for and won custody of the tyke, but now leaves him in the lurch...
That's when managers looking outside the index stocks could regain the advantage. Now may be the wrong time to lurch into index funds. "They've outperformed a long time," Lipper says. "And the history of the market is regression to the mean"--meaning some other segment may be ready to do better as index stocks come back to earth...
...forever. If the virus reproduced very quickly, it would eventually exhaust the body's defenses. At least that's what Ho and Shaw thought. The trick to proving their idea was to find some way to suddenly stop the treadmill. If you did that to a jogger, he would lurch forward. Similarly, if you stopped HIV's cycle of reproduction in the blood, the immune system should suddenly rebound. By measuring that rebound, the scientists hoped to figure out just how rapidly the virus had been reproducing...
...reform. So, naturally, her eldest daughter (a wonderfully surprising Drew Barrymore as a coolly appraising material girl) falls for one of the recidivists (Tim Roth, in another of his beautifully calculated bounces off the wall) her mother brings home to dinner. This leaves nice Holden (Edward Norton) in the lurch and Father (Alan Alda) fuming impotently...