Word: momentousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many black people have fought hard, given their greatest gift--their lives--for you to think, even for a moment, that not exercising the right to vote is an option," Dinkins said. "It is a dishonor to their memories. By not voting and by not being involved, we marginalize only ourselves...
...There are big trends in the electorate that are not the politics of the moment, but long-term demographic shifts," Kamarck said. "We want to develop a set of policies that applies to the future...
...defining moments of my first year came while sitting in one of my first Undergraduate Council meetings. During a vote, the then president hovered over a group of timid first-years and told us to "show some f***ing accountability," in other words, to vote the way he wanted us to. That was a very different council, but even up to a year ago, the council was a highly politically charged and politically divisive place. Conservatives had a special area of the room in which they sat religiously. The most progressive students on the council did as well. Almost every...
Forget, for a moment, the hubbub about human cloning. French surgeons on Wednesday wrote another page of science fiction into the medical books by sewing a dead man's hand onto a living patient. A multinational team of doctors working in Lyon spent three and a half hours transplanting the hand and part of an arm from a brain-dead donor to a 48-year-old Austrialian businessman who lost his lower arm in a logging accident almost a decade ago. [Ed. Note: In a bizarre twist, it was later reported that the patient actually lost his limb using...
...moment, plenty of projects remain in the city, and opportunities for bit parts are still available. For information about upcoming films and walk-on roles, call the MFO hotline, updated weekly, at (617) 973-8800, or visit the MFO website at www.state.ma.us...