Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard pay a lot of lip service to liberal and radical ideas," says Theoharis. "A lot of times I don't see people putting themselves on the line." She says many students are not willing to make sacrifices for their beliefs, not wanting to cross the University's threshold of tolerance...
...noted by two out of three American sociologists and not a few novelists. But Fischl's project is not to embroider cliches on it. Rather he finds images that seem to trail a whole narrative history behind them, but obliquely -- so that you, as viewer, are put at the threshold of a hidden life that may, if you look closer, be yours. Fischl is a true American realist, but he works at a pitch of psychological truth ! (especially about adolescent sexuality) not known in the American narrative art of his forebears in the '30s. At his best he seems, roughly...
...shots in some diabetic children by administering a drug that suppresses the immune system. Researchers in Colombia have tested a malaria vaccine that, unlike previous efforts, seems to provide protection against the disease. Advances have come so fast, says Dana-Farber's Benacerraf, that "we're now on the threshold of being able to activate the different components of the immune system at will to provide therapies for cancer and even for AIDS...
...Yorkers are as independent as you find," Jennings said. "We did just what we needed to do. We picked up delegates. We beat Gore to the point that he didn't even make the threshold" to win delegates...
Candidates needed at last 15 percent of the vote in any of Arizona's five voting districts to qualify for delegates, and Gore failed to reach the threshold in any area...