Word: particulars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Deacon attributed the increase to the recent policy change. He said Harvard's change in particular was important "because people feel the need to apply early since [Harvard] takes so many students early. There's no question there has been an influence...
Vicky Cahan, public affairs specialist for the National Institute on Aging, confirmed that Harvard contacted the agency this past week, telling them "it has reason to examine a particular grant" awarded to Wei, known as a "Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program Award...
...said anger was a luxury, but his 1962 negotiations with steel companies over price controls were set back when he quipped that his father was right to have called steel executives "s.o.b.s." Nixon's anger was more corrosive. He expelled pure poison on the White House tapes and had particular enemies chased by the irs. L.B.J.'s long-standing feud with Bobby Kennedy caused Johnson to descend into paranoia at times...
...report prepared by subcommittee Democrats and obtained by TIME says the private bank repeatedly broke many of its own rules in handling the cash of these depositors, and was not too particular in determining whether funds coming in were legally obtained. Says Senator Carl Levin: "We cannot condemn corruption overseas and then tolerate U.S. banks' making fortunes managing that same money...
...Harold Pinter makes an excellent pre-Victorian patriarch, dropping proper ultimatums right and left). But the new Mansfield Park, Rozema-style, takes the satire to a new level, mocking an entire era and bringing to the surface its deficiencies and ridiculousness. The criticism of the Antiguan slave trade in particular, less prominent in the novel, is quite visually brought to life in the film. By attempting to bring Austen herself into the movie and by transforming Austen's (questionable) implications into blatant innuendos, the director manages to make Jane Austen--well, raucous...