Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...although elections are still two weeks away, the shape of this new council is already beginning to take form. Council insiders predict, among other trends, the diminished role of one of last year's most prominent council factions--the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC)--due to a diminished numbers of returning PUCC representatives...
...Kennedy School experts who went to Health and Human Services to shape welfare policy found out, academics can also end up getting selectively manipulatively used," Skocpol wrote...
...cautioned that meeting with the vice president is not likely to substantively shape policy...
...complete a specific number of divisions. When that process is disrupted, as commonly happens in old cells, problems like osteoporosis and immunological failure set in. Conversely, so-called immortal cells that continue to divide past their allotted count turn cancerous and can proliferate indefinitely. "We'd be in worse shape if cells didn't undergo senescence," says Smith, who studies the aging of cells. "In that case, we might have cancers earlier and more frequently...
...forces. Dole appeared unsure of what he believed and, even worse, seemed powerless to achieve what he wanted even when he knew what it was. To win over the party's most conservative activists--and it is they who largely controlled the nomination process--Dole bent himself out of shape. As a moderate, mainstream Republican in the mold of his hero, Dwight Eisenhower, Dole never became comfortable with his own campaign's core themes and strategy, the tactics and messages designed by his professional handlers that he felt obliged to follow. "I'd been beaten before, and you have...