Word: transcended
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...campuses” around the nation. These young citizens spend ten months away from home as part of small teams working together on service projects. During these months, they share meals, challenges, and extraordinary experiences with each other. In the process, profound bonds are forged that transcend class, race, and region, building a genuine sense of national community...
...think the problems of the College Board transcend this one incident,” Breimer said. “Because they are a monopoly, they have power in an unaccountable way...The SAT is the flagship test and it’s their way or the highway. If they make a mistake, no one can do anything about...
...office-pool Oscar ballots, summoning your expertise on movies most of you haven?t seen - are as meticulous and obsessive as Talmudists or sabermetricians. You pore over past winners for clues to this year?s. You know that the trick is to find the leading indicators, the stats that transcend the conventional wisdom to become the actual, factual wisdom...
...Each Tub On Its Own Bottom’ is a vivid, but limiting, metaphor for decision making at Harvard,” he wrote yesterday in his letter. “We will not escape its limits unless our Schools and Faculties increase their willingness to transcend parochial interests in support of broader university goals...
...movie, and the story--Huffman plays a man in the last stages of becoming a woman who has to deal with an abandoned son he never knew he had--goes rather improbably sentimental and conventional as it develops. Huffman is a strong, hardworking actress, but she doesn't quite transcend the impression that she's performing a stunt instead of playing a part...