Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roderick L. MacFarquhar, Williams professor of history and political science, will replace Kenneth A. Shepsle as chair of the Government department next academic year. Shepsle, who has served a three-year term as department chair, officially steps down July...
Rehman mentions the United Nations' 1947 Partition Resolution, ostensibly to illustrate the long-term incongruity between Israel's actions and the wishes of the international community. Rehman fails to mention that the Jewish population in 1947 accepted this partition plan, and that the plan did not come to fruition because it was rejected by the Arab population and neighboring Arab nations...
...such unsavory things will arise when each student is only assessed a minuscule portion of the bill. Perversely, the fact that the bill is so small exacerbates the insult. With parents working to pay for an already exorbitant tuition, having a charge of $6.50 tacked on their child's term bill with the terse explanation "damage done to common area" rubs salt in a raw wound...
...ABUSE Nobody knows the long-term effects of large doses of Viagra, especially on men who take it for the wrong reason. Although it is a relatively safe drug, there is a possibility that users will become psychologically dependent on it, unable to achieve an erection without Viagra...
Three of the warmest years of the 20th century were bunched in the 1990s. Does this reflect a long-term warming of the globe by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, as many atmospheric scientists have contended? Or was the hot spell just a random, unexceptional fluctuation in the weather? A study published last week in Nature magazine by climatologist Michael Mann and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, may help melt away any lingering doubt about global warming. The scientists developed what amounts to a time-traveling thermometer. Applying innovative statistical tools to reams of evidence gathered from...