Word: microcosm
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...When you walk across the campus, it's a bit of a microcosm of the world...It doesn't always go smoothly," Rudenstine said. "It would be crazy if it did always go smoothly. There are conflicts, there are strains, tensions, problems...
Situated among the rolling hills of southwestern Ohio, Montgomery County is an uncanny microcosm of the rest of the U.S., right down to the renewed obsession with trolls. Last September TIME profiled the region when it was targeted by both the Clinton and Bush campaigns as a critical swing county in a critical state. Among the 96,000 registered Democrats, 66,000 Republicans and 173,000 independents, concern over the economy won out over the county's latent conservatism. Clinton took 41% of the vote, vs. Bush's 40% and Perot...
...what has proven to be a microcosm of a faltering city, St. John the Baptist Church in midtown Manhattan stands at the top of the heap, a glaring symbol of the city's social ills...
...town of Snoul is a microcosm of the U.N.'s gamble. It is a poor place: pigs and cows root around the market; many of the goods on sale have come across the border from Vietnam. The town was destroyed during the American invasion of 1970; nine years later, Vietnamese tanks and trucks roared along the rutted dirt road as they invaded Cambodia to liberate it from the Khmer Rouge and establish an occupation that would last 10 years...
Jewett agreed, saying, "My own feeling is thateach house should be a microcosm of the Harvardcommunity. Non-ordered choice is going to produceless skewed results, but it is never going toproduce houses that are relatively similar inmakeup...