Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...results were as impressive as they were diverse. One student group used the Internet to track acid rain on the polar ice cap. Another communicated with researchers kayaking through South America. A class from Tucson, Arizona, invented a modern version of hide-and-seek called Where Are We? in which players zero in on one another's location by exchanging hints through E-mail...
Another friend puts it a little differently. "Ithink I would say that her values are more deeplyand consistently in opposition to mainstreamHarvard than most people I know. Nonetheless,there are a lot of reasons why she suceeds here.It's not like polar opposites: Tracey andHarvard," her housemate says. "My sense is thatshe doesn't buy into a lot of things that mostpeople do--the kind of insular view of the worldthough the Ivory Tower." Wizansky adds, "She talksabout being alienated a lot but she's been able tomanuever well and get stuff...
...club after being rejected by the bouncer. She attempts to ward off his advances by affecting the stereotypically demure, non-English speaking attitude of a Chinese-born girl. When his persistence charms her, her switch of persona back to her Western personality is sharp enough to cleverly echo the polar extremes that the movie is trying to demonstrate...
...European Union ignored Canada and continued to fish just outside of the 200-mile limit. The EU threatened to send warships to protect its interests. Diplomatic negotations were halted. And meanwhile, turbot go the way of other species: cod populations have been reduced by 99 per cent, pilchard and polar cod by 94 per cent, and haddock by more than 80 per cent since the mid-1970s...
...image of polar bears knocking back bottles of Coca-Cola was the most popular television ad campaign in 1994, according to a survey of 20,000 TV viewers. The bears, also a popular stuffed toy last Christmas, were the brainchild of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency, the top talent shop that took a piece of the Coke business from longtime agency McCann-Erickson...