Word: omit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World Apart is refreshingly different because it resists, for the most part, the impulse to strike out what might be better left unsaid (although it does gloss over the Firsts' communist sympathies). Rather, it aims at realism, insofar as it doesn't omit family fights, broken friendships or even Diana's attempted suicide. And it succeeds because it is not a blanket statement about injustice and racism; it is about the lives of its characters. It is as much, if not more, about the relationship between mother and child than about the conflict between liberal journalist and apartheid-supporting police...
...There are no questions about time commitment or level of involvement with extracurriculars and academic work. Since lack of time is an endemic Harvard disease, how can you omit this aspect of our undergraduate experience from a survey that purports to examine "college life"? There are questions ad nauseum about house life, house community, house committees and house masters. But if no substantial house life actually exists, then the survey's questions won't be worth a farthing. In the survey, I put my extracurriculars at the top of my list of "meaningful" Harvard experiences...
...look at the title of their "fact sheet." It is called "What You Need To Know About The Palestinian Uprising." Are seven diputable half-truths all one needs to know in order to understand the complexities of an issue that has riddled experts for forty years? The Arab students omit, not only their names from this poster, but also the story behind the statements. Perhaps they are scared to openly admit their support for an organization that takes greatest pride in the murder of disabled American Leon Klinghoffer, the 1972 massacre of Olympic Athletes in Munich, and the 1974 massacre...
Instead, HUCTW supporters consider such discussions to be critical because they fear protracted debate over even a handful of workers could delay a vote and hurt their chances for winning an election. In recent bargaining sessions, HUCTW Director Kris Rondeau has agreed to omit workers whose eligibility has been contested by the University...
...times people who live in overcrowded apartments, where there are limits on the number of residents, will say there are fewer people in their households because they think somehow Uncle Sam will notify their landlords and get them thrown out," Rubin says. "Sometimes women will also omit their husbabnds' names from the census because they think they will get more welfare money to take care of their children...