Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What gives us so much confidence in him is he doesn't have a particular axe to grind," Wert said...
Among the many terms unique to college students, along with randomization, concentration, dining hall, proctor, tutorials and other expressions that are specific to particular schools, is a term that has slowly but surely come into vogue at universities across the nation. (Or at least I like to think it has, since I invented it myself.) The term is "real people...
...course, this particular middle manager has never yet met a payroll without help. His tiny subdivision of the big company loses money. But at least he's in there trying. And he's forced to concede that there's more to this management business than he thought. Most of the matters he spouts off about in the course of the day are less important than what pundits spout off about: the direction of the efforts of a few dozen people rather than the direction of Western civilization. However, in this smaller realm, what he spouts actually affects the course...
...clever, speedy but dead serious reading of the play. As Juliet, Daniel J. Shore softens his features and gestures, but doesn't camp it up, and when he kisses Romeo (Greg Shamie) full on the lips, you are forced to see their love not as the linking of two particular people, or even two particular genders, but as love in the abstract, the essence of all-consuming passion...
...Department of Justice is supposed to pursue the truth. It may have, but it certainly isn't going to publish it soon. Last December, the DOJ announced with great fanfare that it would finally reveal the results of an investigation into allegations that the U.S. government, and in particular the Central Intelligence Agency, collaborated with drug smugglers to funnel cocaine into inner-city neighborhoods. Many of those claims had been laid out in a three-part series in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. The most outrageous allegations were later proved wrong, and the reporter who wrote the story...