Word: used
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem, in the most basic sense, is that students don't care. Voter turnouts are disgraceful, and students rarely use the council to spur campus-wide debate...
...size. Such casual empiricism is not warranted in light of available evidence. In 1954, 41 percent of adults in the U.S. thought that smoking is one of the causes of lung cancer, compared to 66 percent by 1964. Similarly, awareness has increased over time of the link between tobacco use and 25 or so other diseases. The causality is not rationally challenged today. In the '50s, however, the harmful effects of smoking were certainly not, as Helfer glibly declares, widely perceived...
Informed adults should be free to take informed risks--including taking up smoking. Smoking initiation, however, often occurs during adolescence, when awareness of the health harms of tobacco use is limited. Neither is the addictiveness of the habit widely perceived. Furthermore, many studies show that, while youth may be aware of the risk of addiction, they may not personalize the risk...
...University, in keeping with recent efforts to restrict the use of the Harvard name, recently asked the Harvard Club of New York to change the name of its online newsletter...
Senior Administrative Specialist Elizabeth C. Hess, a representative of the provost's office responsible for overseeing the use of the Harvard name within the University umbrella, said she first saw the newsletter eight weeks ago and decided to ask the club to change its name...