Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope my inference is clear. The A's go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly booped letters with circles over the o's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd" What force?" What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless, "nonsense", on the one hand; "doubtless", "obvious", "unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...chemical industry had a Three Mile Island of its own when a gas leak at a Union Carbide plant killed some 2,500 people in Bhopal, India. The company faces a flurry of lawsuits that threaten its financial future. In the wake of the disaster, chemical manufacturers will have to take a hard look at safety procedures. Moreover, companies in all kinds of industries will need to examine whether their ways of doing business in foreign countries measure up to their standards at home. Said a shaken Warren Anderson, chairman of Union Carbide: "I think Bhopal has changed the world...
...tragic wake of Bhopal, safety reviews are under way in most of the U.S., the world's biggest producer and user of MIC and other pesticides. Nearly a billion tons of pesticides and herbicides, comprising 225 different chemicals, was produced in the U.S. last year, and an additional 79 million lbs. was imported. MIC is stored or used at plants in New York, West Virginia, Texas, Alabama and Georgia. Those insecticides not dependent on the compound, like malathion, are also construct ed of toxic molecules. Dow Chemical Co., one of the nation's largest producers of agricultural...
...even turn out to be a Biochemistry concentrator. "I'm pretty interested in this DNA thing," remarks the University of Maryland and Wake Forest recruit, who says he's enjoying a friendly rivalry with his Yale graduate parents and sister...