Word: neutralizer
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Both The Terminal Man and Binary -written under the author's old Harvard Medical School paperback pen name, John Lange-share their author's distinctive touch. Crichton creations thrive on a scientific esoterica that owes more to fact than to fiction. Crichton people tend to be value-neutral technicians who, like sorcerer's apprentices, meddle with forces they cannot control. Above all, there is Crichton's almost compulsive awareness of time and his skill at explaining the complex without losing the reader's interest...
Chants of "let's Go Knicks" and signs like "Pass the Word, the Knicks Are Back" filled the Garden, and for three periods it must have seemed to the Celtics as if they were playing on a neutral court...
...misjudging just how far the Harvard community will accept this kind of behavior (this may again be my naivete, however.) What I stated two years ago is even more true today: the only way I will have a just hearing is if the hearing body is a neutral body, appointed by a neutral agent or jointly by both parties to the dispute. The current situation is nothing less than a farce. I call upon the "new committee as a body to refuse to serve, and I call on the Harvard Administration to step in and take jurisdiction over an issue...
...people of South Vietnam. This has been the central issue of the Paris negotiations, and it is the crux of the current stalemate. The position held by North Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government in the South is that the Thieu regime must give way to a neutral coalition government which will then supervise elections in South Vietnam. But the United States has consistently stipulated that elections take place under the aegis of the current Saigon regime, a situation that would amount to no genuine elections...
Basically, it is a simple alteration. Body-checking, once restricted to a team's defensive zone and neutral ice, will be permitted anywhere on the playing surface. The American and Canadian games are now virtually the same...