Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entered English directly from German and how many references to the Malay language appear in the dictionary. Child's play, apparently. He is more interested in the broader possibilities. "It would be relatively straightforward," he says, "to compile dictionaries for distinct historical periods, to produce something, say, that would present only the vocabulary available to Shakespeare. The same thing could be done with reference to important legal documents, pointing out what the words of the laws actually meant at the time they were written...
That the cyanide was still present in the fruit after the two-week boat trip was disturbing. Acid in grapes quickly decomposes the poison, so the original amount injected could have been much greater. After an early-Monday meeting, Young decided to pull all Chilean fruit off the market...
Most pollutants are probably not present in large enough concentrations to pose significant health hazards. But there are a few worrisome exceptions. Radon, a radioactive gas that gets into the air from soil and rocks, is also present in some water supplies. Rick Cothern, a member of the EPA's Science Advisory Board, points out that when the contaminated water pours out of a tap or shower head, the radon can pass into the air inside a home. He believes that radon from water may cause a few hundred cases of cancer each year. Those cases might be prevented...
...would pay off, says Reich, who believes that small towns will offer opportunities in the next century as urban centers become more congested: "The new economy toward which we're evolving operates on a smaller scale and is far better suited to rural environments. But unless we remove the present barriers to rural America's economic transition, more and more of us will find ourselves packed ever more tightly together...
...whites? What about the tables where there is a mixed group of people? Mr. Hsia did not even acknowledge the existence of such tables. I, like many of my friends who happen to be of a minority background, have been at a table where we were the only minorities present on many occasions. Futhermore, I believe that it is a credit to the minority students at Harvard that they can choose to eat with whomever they wish. Besides, if a group of minority students wishes to sit at a table together, so what? However, it is also true that...