Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squad had always had a strong core of devoted players at its thrice-weekly practices, but seldom were there enough team members on hand for full-pool, seven-on-seven scrimmages. That meant that when the club played games, it would see full-strength competition for the first time...
...many critics of the Corporation say that even with the strengths of its individual members, it cannot serve Harvard adequately because it has never had a woman or minority member. The Corporation's distinction of being the oldest self-perpetuating body in the Western Hemisphere also makes it a gross example of the strength of the Old Boy network, critics...
Shales too, now thinks that "Nightline"'s style makes perfect television sense. It's easier to fit in on little boxes. All we need to see is their faces," he says. The style, he continues, enhances the show's strength and its efforts "to shed a lot of light on a variety of issues...
That raises the possibility of a joint Hart-Jackson challenge before the convention's rules committee, which meets in Washington the last week of June. The great majority of the committee's 184 members will be chosen in proportion to each candidate's strength in the convention, which means they will be pro-Mondale. By pooling their forces, though, Hart and Jackson could win the 25% committee vote necessary to produce a minority report, which could open the way to a floor fight on delegate credentials. The idea that enough Mondale delegates could actually be unseated...
...that I was asked to identify each taste at very low concentrations, and quantitative, meaning that I was asked to rate the intensity of different concentrations. During Bartoshuk's "whole-mouth" test, when I rinsed with the diluted solutions, I wore headphones and was asked to rate the strength of sound tones administered intermittently by Dr. Lawrence E. Marks, an auditory psychophysicist. This procedure, known as magnitude matching, is used as a form of control. Psychophysicists have found that a subject's perception of strength in taste concentrations usually matches the strength rating of comparable intensities of sound...