Word: nascent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nascent Harvard women's squash juggernaut split forces this weekend, half the squad sustaining the team's early season roll over dual match opponents with a 7-0 romp over Bowdoin, and the other half, led by freshman Diana Staley, advancing the Crimson reputation in the women's squash establishment with creditable individual performances at the Princeton Squad Invitational...
...enough women are interested in playing rugby, Erickson plans to act as advisor/coach to the nascent team, and several A-side men rugby players and women rugby players from the Boston area will aid in the coaching duties until a permanent coach can be found. And then--once the basics have been mastered--the women could start playing against other area teams and in rugby tournaments...
...STICKING point between Trudeau and the eight provincial premiers who oppose his initiative is over the establishment of an equitable formula for amending the nascent document. Except for New Brunswick's Richard Hatfield and Ontario's William Davis, the provincial premiers fear the new constitution could erode their power by increasing the leverage of the central government. Furthermore, another dimension should be noted: The constitutional package forms the crux of Trudeau's response to the separatist movement in Quebec and the growing regional loyalties of the resource-rich, solidly Conservative West. If the constitution is indeed brought home, on Trudeau...
Sadat's government has kept a watchful eye on a nascent coalition of opposition groups. Following Israel's bombing of the Baghdad nuclear reactor and Beirut, leftist and religious critics began sharing the same platform to denounce Sadat's wholehearted embrace of the U.S.-sponsored Camp David peace process. The broad purge seemed to reflect an uneasy concern that the regime's detractors were displaying new signs of unity...
...Shaw argues that the American patriots, individually and collectively, partook in ritualized behavior that eventually resulted in insurrectionary impulses, or, in the author's words, "rehearsed a revolution." By participating in ancient rituals of early American society and ammending them in their own particular ways, the patriots displayed a nascent and ultimately unstoppable desire for independence...