Word: widely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Calling the 1995 decision by then-Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 to remove choice from the upperclass housing process "shortsighted," the tutors cite the need for a College-wide reexamination of randomization in an open letter which was delivered to administrators yesterday morning...
...letter goes on to counter claims that the concentration of minority students in the Quad Houses and Quincy House before randomization somehow detracted from "campus-wide student interaction...
...soon, as production picks up, that line and a number of others already laid will be too small to handle the job. The consortiums want a new 3.5-ft.-wide line that will be able to carry up to 1 million bbl. a day in five years. At the bar of the Ragin' Cajun, a hot spot in Baku, a veteran of oil fields from Texas to Siberia explains, "The game's called pipeline poker. The Caspian is crazy. It's landlocked. We can drill all the oil you'd ever need...
...department. The officer obliges and pays the price. Lightning fast, Levine breaks free and delivers a kick to his opponent's groin. The officer doubles over, only to be greeted by a sharp knee jab to his face. While the exercise is a simulation, Levine's students are nonetheless wide-eyed...
...certain rhythmic sweetness, as in one of the masterpieces of Calder's middle years, The Spider, 1940. Later, as he got famous and "monumental" commissions were pressed on him, he would defeat this quality of his own work by building huge sluggish mobiles--one of which, 76 ft. wide, hangs permanently over the atrium of the National Gallery--that would need a hurricane to budge them and are parodies of his original, lyrical insight. He was always best on the small-to-medium scale. And compared with his best mobiles, his "stabiles"--big-profile metal sculptures that didn't move...