Word: thresholds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state school for the retarded in Wrentham, Mass., two Harvard scientists used children as young as one year old in a 1961-62 experiment to determine the human threshold for nuclear fallout...
...beginning of sophomore year, asthe Thursdayfests raged and she was coming toterms with Fairfield, her introspection about raceand identity only intensified. Smith decided toconcentrate in both English and Afro-Americanstudies; a seminar with Werner Sollors brought heracross a" threshold into--I don't want to sayblackness, but maybe commercial blackness,social blackness, confirmed in literature. I did alot of reading I hadn't done but should have doneby then...
...ways the abused can become abusive. Nan Whitfield, a Los Angeles public defender, believes media coverage of abuse has raised juror interest in the motives and mind-set of the accused. "I think juries have always been interested in why something happened," she says. "Once the defendant crosses the threshold and does present that evidence ((of his victimization)), I do think the jurors' ears perk up and they become more interested." She speaks from some experience. She won the felony acquittal of Aurelia Macias, accused of cutting off her sleeping husband's testicles with a pair of scissors, by arguing...
...proportionate share -- that is, 24% -- of Du Pont's undistributed earnings. Corporate accounting rules permit a company to do that if it owns 20% or more of another firm -- and that is why some stock analysts think Seagram may well boost its share in Time Warner past that threshold...
...Harvard and throughout the nation, Blacks stood on the threshold of full integration. Having won gains in the political and social areas, Black students at Harvard were crusading to clinch the last gain, to have an Afro-Am program of their own. Former students say this struggle for academic recognition parallels Black people's national quest for complete integration...