Word: medias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These students had all contracted bacterial meningitis, a disease that in recent years has increasingly hit college campuses, drawing the media's eye and prompting thousands of students to pay for costly vaccinations...
...ACHA cites two CDC studies indicating increased risk of meningitis among first-year students living in dormitories, but many people believe the new policy was caused primarily by media pressure. This fall, ABC ran a profile on college meningitis cases in its newsmagazine "20/20" that some health professionals said they credit with raising parental awareness of the disease...
...press. It's in the media. It's on '20/20.' It's on '60 Minutes.' You have to respond to that," Lardner said...
Thematically divergent, these carefully hand-crafted works have in common a certain highly wrought quality. The artists seem to share a concern for each piece as a made object, for the physicality of their media and for the creation of new effects by the manipulation of materials. Benjamin Cotham's paintings of faces, overglazed many times over by layers of semi-transparent black paint, demonstrate the pay-off of this awareness. His invention of a new way to treat paint allows him to make terrifically eerie pieces; as with a hologram, the image is only visible from certain angles...
Early admission programs have garnered a great deal of media attention in the past few years--another explanation for this year's record number of applicants...