Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many scholars are also studying why members of this same group of students rarely are quiet long enough during any given hour of class discussion to hear any one else speak. Through this research, scientists uncovered the existence of a secret ritualistic club, "The Bullshitters of Harvard." After many years of freelancing, the individuals apparently decided to organize in order to accomplish their mutual objective of worldwide annoyance. I attended a recent meeting during which an alumnus returned to give a speech on techniques of Harvard section behavior...
Climatologists regularly issue confident warnings about impending atmospheric disasters. The secret of their wizardry: sophisticated computer models, which are no more than mathematical representations of the world's climate and the conditions that scientists think may contribute to a specific phenomenon like, say, ozone depletion. Unfortunately, when all the variables are fed into the computer, the predictions can fail miserably to match reality...
Recently, the party leadership faced its most serious internal challenge ever. Led by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, 53, the son of a former President, a faction insisted that the selection process be opened up. The party met the demand halfway. Instead of keeping the process secret, the party leadership made public a list of six names. Each of the candidates then fielded questions from party officials at televised breakfast meetings...
...turns out to be one of the very few moments of humor in the script. The rest of this solemn movie follows the next five years of Maurice's life as he transforms himself from a callow undergraduate into a cultivated city stock-broker, all the while guarding his secret from the Dean, the police and London society...
...there is the rub. Fame and infamy also turn out to be rewarded in the same ways. That is the source of disquiet, the secret price of living in a society that has precise epithets for men and women who sell their bodies but none for those who sell their souls...