Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...large central African country with few doctors, few roads, limited medical infrastructure and a recent history of bloody conflict, is a much more difficult undertaking. Officials have trouble counting births and deaths in some regions, let alone getting a sense of how many people may have suffered from a particular disease...
...second season halfway through--more a mercy killing than a hiatus--Season 3 is every bit as much a do-over. The premiere picks up directly from 2007's ending, and where last season moseyed toward reuniting its everyday superheroes, Season 3 gets them in the mix immediately. In particular, it keeps fan-favorite Hiro (Masi Oka) busy after stranding him in medieval Japan last season...
...contrast, I have been brought into contact with any number of historians, in America and abroad, who have twisted the facts of history to suit their own particular political or social views or prejudices. Mainstream German history textbooks today routinely ignore or treat merely as footnotes such events as Kristallnacht, the Holocaust and German guilt, while the more extreme deny their existence entirely. At various points in the past century, entirely reputable historians came down on all sides of the Vietnam War, the Armenian massacres by Turks, the humanity of Soviet communism and, today, American policies across the Middle East...
...Needless to say, I surrendered. I admitted that my parents did their best, and I accepted the fact that being voted Most Improved Player nearly every year in all the sports I played was a testament to my refusal to concentrate on any particular one beyond its brief school season...
...Last year, the drinking culture at Harvard received particular attention by the administration, this paper of record, and the Undergraduate Council, among other groups. Notably, many recurring concerns on our campus, such as student safety, underage drinking liability and increased popularity of binge drinking, are shared with the authors of the Amethyst statement. The 21 law is not working, and to promote a well-informed discussion nationally and encourage more effective legislative action, President Faust should sign the Amethyst Initiative...