Word: person
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision was not the occasion of much debate at first. After all, it seemed ridiculous to refer to the head of our editorial board as Chairman when she was, in fact, a woman. And besides, what relevance does a person's gender have to their capacity to do the job? But after the box appeared, there was criticism. It followed the lines which have become all too familiar. Does everything have to be an issue? The Crimson has finally lost its independence and is now a slave to modish opinion...
...feels the question is in fact a euphemism for unease about a black -- and it often is -- Brown tackles race head on. "If I were a white person who had been Jackson's convention manager, I don't think this would come...
Many of those involved in choosing a new party chairman say -- as did the frat brothers at Sigma Phi -- that they like Brown personally but worry about the effect his election would have on the party. "Ron is a great guy, talented, intelligent and articulate," says Senator John Breaux of Louisiana. "But I think he's the wrong person at the wrong time and the wrong symbol." Brown refers to this as his "but" problem. "My goal is to make it more difficult for people...
...Wang; $16.95), it seeks to explain why so many people are numerically inept and shows how they can learn to work and play with figures. Paulos, 43, has no patience with mathematical dumbos who almost boastfully claim, "I can't even balance my checkbook," or "I'm a people person, not a numbers person." "I'm pained," he says, "at the belief that mathematics is an esoteric discipline with little relation or connection to the 'real' world...
...example, 1 chance in 68,000 of choking to death or 1 in only 5,300 of dying in a car crash), that the number of possible five-card poker hands is 2,598,960 and that the size of a human cell is to that of a person as that of a person is to the size of Rhode Island. Paulos also notes that 367 people have to be gathered to ensure that two of them share the same birthday. How many must be in a group to guarantee a fifty-fifty chance that two have a birthday...