Word: transcendently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parties concerned have found the Tersk auction to be a stable, and profitable, island of amity amid the shifting tides of East-West trade. Equine dealings between the U.S. and the Soviets are even beginning to transcend buying and selling. A new concern called Fidelis International has struck a deal to market Soviet horses and stud services in the U.S. and Canada. Says a Soviet trade official with the terseness of a Yankee horse trader: "This is a good agreement...
...This year showed occasionally that there were alternative to such a communications gap, as when the College's new Undergraduate Council, the first funded student government in Harvard's history, convinced College officials that they had acted too hastily in curtailing summer storage privileges. But whenever issues began to transcend the purely practical, positions polarized as swiftly as ever. And the reason--the disappointing realization which eventually comes to any student urging the University to examine its own conscience--was Harvard's nature as a completely pragmatic institution...
...theory of time presented in the play belongs to philosopher J. W. Dunne who, according to Priestly, oposits that each person is "a series of observers in a corresponding series of times." Ordinarily, people can only perceive the present, through the eyes of their mortal identity. But occasionally humans transcend this limitation. Thus when we see the future in dreams, we are looking through the eyes of an observer in some future time. Similarly, within the play, one of the characters is treated to two distinct temporal visions of her life. Act II, which takes place nearly 20 years after...
...Arab nations. What if we not only agreed upon the speakers but met afterwards to discuss their varying viewpoints? What if we joined our strengths to cooperate on this small task and in so doing learned something about who the "other" is, learned in a small way to transcend the anger of our fathers and mothers? What if we really did find a way "to beat our spears into ploughshares..." ...what...
...cannabis) by declaring it illegal, in those areas where it has become part of the cultural pattern (as if Africa, India, Asia, and Latin America) no authority has been able to suppress it for long." Solomon believes the issues raised by the existence of psychoactive substances transcend the risks and benefits of any particular drug: "No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate or fix the levels of consciousness to which man may aspire, whether these states are reached pharmacologically or otherwise...