Word: overlapping
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...generation and a half ago in America, the moment at which most people decided to marry often roughly coincided with their finishing college. Today, the same overlap--between the uncertainty of facing life after school and the reassurance of doing it with a spouse--applies only to a small minority...
What should be remembered is that we are all members of diverse communities which do not necessarily overlap. Besides our affiliation with the group that we might spend the most time with, many of us are also tutors, club soccer players, House Committee delegates or roommates...
...fact, some students have chosen to attend regular courses which overlap with the Ec 10 lectures, choosing to watch the lectures on videotape outside of class...
Several programs which examine scholarshipthrough "the gender lens"--including the Committeeon Degrees in Women's Studies in the Faculty ofArts and Sciences and the new Women and PublicPolicy Program at the Kennedy School--would gain acohesive hub, controlling academic overlap withinthe University. The move would also further theRudenstinian legacy of fostering interfacultyinitiatives...
...closure and justice overlap? Not necessarily. Should the President's approval ratings reach 100% next week, it would certainly represent closure to the Lewinsky case, but it wouldn't also mean justice had been done--particularly if Starr's report to Congress were to contain persuasive evidence of crimes. When Richard Nixon resigned over Watergate, that was closure too, it can be argued--but his pardon by Gerald Ford was viewed by many, even to this day, as an unsatisfactory moral ending...