Word: sine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u, dv; slapstick, slide rule, MIT."--The school cheer for MIT last Saturday during its first varsity football game in 87 years...
...decision will cost Johnson & Johnson as much as $150 million to recall its capsules and scrap their production. In addition to Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson made and sold capsule forms of Sine-Aid, a remedy for sinus congestion, and Dimensyn, a medicine for the relief of menstrual pain. The capsule form of Tylenol amounted to about 30% of the pain reliever's estimated 1985 sales of $525 million. To make up for its loss, the company last week began promoting Tylenol in the form of caplets, which are the smooth, elongated tablets that Johnson & Johnson began producing in 1983, after seven...
...some extent, is membership in Harvard College itself; residence in a sparsely populated state distinguishes many a successful applicant from Great Neck peers consigned to the Other Place.) Those chances once included being of the right sex, income bracket, family, race, and religion. Now only one circumstance remains sine qua non. As the luck of being born female is prerequisite to becoming a Cliffie, that of being born male is necessary to becoming a Clubbie...
...engines of my jet were already turning when Costa Mendez arrived. He drew an envelope from his pocket, advising me to open it after I was airborne. As the wheels lifted off the runway, I read Costa Méndez's words: "It is absolutely essential and conditio sine qua non that negotiations will have to conclude with a result on Dec. 31, 1982. This result must include a recognition of Argentine sovereignty over the islands." Once again, in an exercise of bad faith unique in my experience as a negotiator, the Argentines had gone back on their word...
...face of the warlike Nicaragua-Honduras tension and of the dramatic internal situation in El Salvador, one must try for a dialogue of peace. Peace is not going to solve all the problems, but it is a sine qua non for resolving them. Following pacification, there must be support for pluralism and for elections. Finally, even this will be insufficient without social justice. It is a plan that should be developed and supported by all the countries of the region, by Western Europe...