Word: salient
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Race is still a salient part of American society," she said...
...council Treasurer Beth A. Stewart'00, who also is in her second year on the council, has plastered the campus with posters promising "Action, for a Change." Stewart, who interned this summer in the office of House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and is a member of the conservative Salient, has vowed to move the council toward an agenda focused primarily on quality-of-life issues...
...efforts by Asian countries to set up a separate, regional body to handle the bailouts. Such a move, Washington feared, would have undermined the IMF, which over 50 years has built up the expertise--and, even more important, the credibility--to handle these complicated and politically sensitive operations. The salient point, said President Clinton, is that "on a global level, the role of the IMF remains central." The language was flavorless. The message wasn't: Eat your spinach...
...motivating anecdote behind Adair's article is one in which she is asked by a scholarship interviewer whether she has a boyfriend; she feels compelled to respond positively for fear of losing the scholarship. Citing an article I wrote in the Oct. 27 issue of The Salient, Adair writes, "Had my interviewer been Schaefer...I might not have gotten the scholarship...
...identifies the author of the other article mentioned no less than three times. Adair does not use a single quotation to support her accusations of bigotry. The one quotation she does use in a secondary argument appears in 25 point font in the middle of my article in The Salient. As an English concentrator, Adair should understand when I write that she fails to use the techniques of close reading when constructing her slanderous arguments. --Naomi Schaefer '98, Editor-in-Chief, The Harvard Salient...