Word: setups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This setup is all well and fine, except Coupland doesn't go anywhere with it. The characters never really do anything. They spend a quarter of the book hanging out or going up to British Columbia to discover that a forest has disappeared, or gawking at the resident AIDS patient at the mall. When Tyler finally gets the story moving by describing his find-himself trip to Europe, it is only to add another persona to the cast: the Parisian Stephanie. The other youngsters hate her because she acts coolly above the fray of life, which is something they...
...setup may also have advantages for school administrators, according to Elisabeth S. Nathans, the dean of first-year students. Nathans said she hopes the Science Center boxes will be used to send intracollegiate mail free of charge...
Nathans said she doesn't think a similar program would work at Harvard. Although she said she hopes to involve faculty more in the advising process, she said she believes this will be a difficult goal to achieve with Harvard's busy faculty and the present advising setup, which often revolves around entryway proctors...
...system has its ups and downs. The rooms are more likely to be private and quiet, a boon if you're into a sedentary lifestyle. On the other hand, casual dropin visits to anyone above the third floor are bound to seem a little contrived. Some find the entryway setup picturesque and charming. Others are less gracious, grumbling that a social life determined by stairwell is both tiring and stifling...
Smith believes that the new woman's specialist should concentrate almost exclusively on preventive and primary care. "The ideal setup would be female clinics, overseen by doctors but staffed by nurses and other non-M.D. professionals," he says. Routine prenatal and pregnancy care, now the purview of the gynecologist-obstetrician, would be handled by midwives, while high- risk pregnancies and deliveries would be assigned to the appropriate specialists...