Word: used
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some students might genuinely feel uncomfortable living with a roommate who is gay. But that student should have the opportunity to use that discomfort as a learning experience. For the same reasons we promote religious and racial toleration, we cannot sanction the FDO's current policy towards gay roommates...
Last spring, in response to student demands that Harvard cease doing business with manufacturers that use sweatshops, University officials announced their intention to require all manufacturers to reveal which factories they use for apparel...
...understand it, he would have a mandate for parents to buy insurance in the private market with a subsidy. Will hard-pressed parents purchase benefits anywhere nearly as generous as those Medicaid provides? Will they feel like they can? Or will they be forced by circumstances to use the subsidy to get more limited care, and then use their own money for other pressing priorities that are always knocking at the door...
Irregular and regular verbs embody the two underlying tricks behind the gift of articulate speech: words and rules. A word is a memorized link between a sound and a meaning. The word duck does not look, walk or quack like a duck. But we can use it to convey the idea of a duck because we all once learned to connect the sound with the idea...
...creates a file that includes the user's musical preference, level of computer savvy and sophistication of computer equipment, as well as a catalog of CDs they've played on their ROM drive. That news set off alarm bells with web privacy advocates, who fear the data could be used to indict Net surfers who use pirated materials such as CDs (sometimes unwittingly). The reaction drew a quick response from RealNetworks, which announced Monday that it was releasing a free software download that would block the program's ability to collect personal infomration...