Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israeli right knows exactly what it's doing. As the new Palestinian state makes its first steps towards turn independence, the ultra-conservatives in Israel seem bent on destroying it. They have to; the peaceful coexistence of Israelis and Palestinians would render them politically irrelevant...
...Harvard ultra-conservatives, on the other hand, could use a little help. It's not easy being ignored because everything you say sounds so hopelessly redundant. It's not easy being dismissed because you have so few original ideas. It's not easy feeling lonely because you've alienated everyone around...
...possible that Jackie's quest for money -- probably the reason behind her unhappy marriage to Onassis -- is rooted in her father's financial troubles. But her stepfather, Hugh Auchincloss, was generous; she headed off to Miss Porter's School, an ultra-posh boarding school, with her own horse. Two years at Vassar followed, but Jackie was too restless to thrive in the leafy confines of a Poughkeepsie, New York, campus. She finished college at George Washington University and, spurning the Prix de Paris offers, began her job as the Inquiring Photographer for the Washington Times-Herald...
These last two weeks have been a hazy existence narrated by caffeine-induced hyper-consciousness. And i concede an addiction to foreign substances: 'grade a ultra-pasteurized homogenized light cream and pure cane granu lated sugar.' Voltaire supposedly consumed many a cup--did he also die to life...
Also, Buell says, "generally speaking it'sunwise to generate ultra-small academic units...