Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember when I went to a religious dayschool, the other kids would make fun of mebecause I didn't look Jewish," said Joel B. Pollak'99. "I think assimilation is [creating asituation of] hiding outward symbols of Judaism...
...hours a day right through Dec. 28, the day Hong Kong authorities began their territory-wide slaughter. The research showed that 10% of chickens in the markets carried the virus. Ducks and geese in the markets carried it too--especially worrisome, given their ability to carry infections without outward sign of illness. In the markets, all poultry--ducks, geese, chickens--was killed. The slaughter, according to Shortridge and Webster, removed a substantial reservoir of H5 virus from contact with people...
...There was a very strong view on the part of C200 that it was time for us to move outward in our ability to share the success of the women who are members," said Susan W. Bird, a member of the C200 executive board and a former president of the organization...
Ethnic groups change from promoting diversity to self-segregating when the individual goal of fostering intragroup friendships becomes the goal of the group. Athletes and actors form friendships by virtue of their common affiliation with a specific team or production, but their raison d'etre is limited by their outward-looking responsibility to play games or put on a show...
This conclusion is both simplistic and unjust. It mistakes an indifference and impatience for tedious classwork with a spiritual malaise and selfish inwardness. These are two very distinct kinds of boredom--and they have very different implications. The first, the indifference, is a particular dissatisfaction, the outward sign that one's mind and one's priorities are elsewhere, for better or worse. The second type of boredom is a sickness. It is totalizing, spiritual and philosophical. College first-years these days are bored in the first sense only; they do not have their minds on their work because they...