Word: paradigm
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...many others. Closed in 1980 for repairs, the rink over the next six years became a paradigm of the fouled-up city construction project, complete with horror stories of bureaucratic fumbling and outrageous expense. Not until last July, when New York Real Estate Mogul Donald Trump, 40, whose fortune has been estimated at upwards of a billion dollars, took over the job of rebuilding the 33,000-sq.-ft. rink, did Wollman show signs of being completed in time for the 1986-87 skating season. Trump offered Mayor Edward Koch a deal: let him have a crack...
...work has set the paradigm of what much of chemical physics has followed," said Chemistry Department Chairman George M. Whitesides, professor of chemistry...
...challenged the paradigm" of thepsychology of moral development, said Professor ofRomance and Comparative Literatures Susan R.Suleiman. Suleiman, the chairman of the women'sstudies committee, said that the tenure decisionwill only have "positive effects" on the EdSchool...
...graffiti war in Honduras is at once a parody and a paradigm of the larger phantom war that is haunting the country within its borders and without. Ever since 1982, when the U.S.-backed contra rebels set up bases in Honduras for their efforts to bring down the Nicaraguan government, the country has found itself in a curious kind of limbo: not at war, but hardly at peace, caught in the line of a fire that it is unwilling and largely powerless to join. Now, with Washington about to send $100 million in aid to the contras, the reluctant hosts...
...course, this is not the first time that Reagan has attempted to create a foe to explain away this country's social malaise. Only last spring the paradigm of evil was terrorism. But a few months and a couple of bombings of Libya later, he has come to realize that all of his empty bellowings will do nothing to stop TWA flights from being hijacked or Paris from becoming a veritable graveyard...