Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vision Thing...
...that all students, regardless of their financial situation could enjoy the full college experience. One was the making available of free formal tickets to underprivileged students. Hyman recalls, "We got the financial aid office to set aside so many tickets for those underprivileged students--I think that's one thing that will never be repealed because it's such a great thing. I was proud to lead that project team." Being council president was for Hyman "the most rewarding part of my college experience. Most of my best friends for life were from U.C., and of course, Lamelle!" Today Hyman...
...more productive and more deserving than I. At first I was bitter (after all, by pretending that no one is less qualified we make it harder on people who end up realizing that they are less qualified). But I've come to understand that it is not a bad thing to accept that other people are better in some way (or even in every way). The trick (and it's an awfully hard trick to pull off) is to accept this without giving up trying to be as productive as one can in fact be. That part I'm still...
...like to treat all our jobs equally, but this thing is a big deal," Georgs says. "You have to have a little fun every once in a while, and this...
...satisfied with perennially checking the "don't know" box in explaining an air crash, we're burdened, as a culture, to find an explanation for a phenomenon that has killed 16 million people - and has infected 33 million more - in less than two decades. "The interesting thing is that in Hooper's explanation, as in all the plausible scenarios for how the virus made the jump to humans, the key element is a chance encounter," says Gorman. "In other words, in all of them there's a common element - bad luck...