Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lions' senior defensive end Rashaan Curry was a particular menace, breezing by right tackle Glen Warner on many plays and disrupting the offense the whole game...
...sexual detail. Of course, the report tilts heavily toward Monica's side of the tale, the President having declined to discuss the relationship with any specificity--an unaccustomed act of gallantry, perhaps. Even so, we know enough of his role to give this one passage from the report particular poignancy: "Whereas the President testified that 'what began as a friendship came to include [intimate contact],' Ms. Lewinsky explained that the relationship moved in the opposite direction: 'The emotional and friendship aspects... developed after the beginning of our sexual relationship...
About three years ago, the human experiment began in earnest. IVF recruited couples who wanted a child of a particular sex, either to bring "gender balance" to their family or to help them avoid sex-linked genetic diseases for which their offspring could be at risk. The procedure took no more than a day and cost a non-reimbursable $2,500 a try. "I actually watched the sperm enter my body on the screen of the ultrasound machine," marvels Monique Collins, 33, of Gainesville, Va., one of the program's first successes...
...take place next Tuesday--for graduate students and post-docs to discuss the department with Anderson in an informal setting. Anderson will also meet with the student-run Quality of Life Committee on aregular basis, as well as individual classes (allfifth-years, for example) to discuss issuesspecific to a particular stage in the graduatecareer...
...wholesale. In the course of the summer, the Boston Globe forced the resignations of Patricia Smith and Mike Barnicle for similar (if somewhat less marked) fictional tendencies. Even Time and CNN got on the bandwagon. In a joint project, the two media giants (and veteran reporter Peter Arnett in particular) alleged that American troops used nerve gas in Laos in 1970 despite the report's meager sourcing and despite the strong objections of many who knew what actually happened...