Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Center welcome lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Roman Catholic myself, I have come to understand that what I feel is simply unavoidable love. I decided that, in this violent world, there's not so much love that I can reject it just because it happens to go in a particular direction...
...reviewing some of the events of particular interest to women which occurred during the last semester, I have come to the conclusion that the true significance of these events has been overlooked by the University community. Rather than a series of unrelated events, they represent a disturbing trend of a de jure relegation of women to less than full members in the Harvard community...
People with a particular talent -- especially a visual talent -- are seldom the best theorists of what they do. Georges Seurat, for instance, was tiresome on pointillism. So perhaps Richard Saul Wurman, a graphic designer who creates the delightfully unorthodox Access guides to cities, should have left it to someone else to explain how people can organize the overflow of data that saturates contemporary life. Information Anxiety is an intermittently diverting self-help guide, Megatrends crossed with What Color Is Your Parachute? But it is more a collage than a book -- with digressive marginalia, diagrams, stray factoids and snatches of autobiography...
...dead elephant." Another top consumer is Japan, where ivory has long been used for personalized seals called hanko. But under pressure from conservationists, Hong Kong and Japan have begun to check closely the documents on ivory imports to weed out illegal shipments. Japan's legal ivory imports, in particular, have dropped sharply in the past three years...
...President. The setting alone -- the entire Government of the United States solemnly assembled in one vast chamber -- imparts a majesty and a grandeur to the occasion. The maiden address to Congress by a new President adds a further element of anticipation and drama. For George Bush, in particular, last Thursday's performance was the long awaited moment of self-definition, the chance to put to rest forever the stale gibes about his difficulties with "the vision thing...