Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Nancy Murray, conference organizer, who provided routine information regarding the purpose of the event, date, time, size of the anticipated audience, etc. She also offered her judgment, unsolicited, that the conference was likely to be controversial and felt that we would probably need to discuss a security presence beyond our normal levels...
...that the existence of such a policy precludes the need for any discussion on why gays, lesbians and bisexuals should not be discriminated against, yet once more we are asked to explain our position, our need for rights. We are asked to explain our existence. Surely we have gotten beyond this on the Harvard campus. All we should have to do is voice our complaint, pointing out the University's direct contradiction of itself...
Scientists have begun to regard Gaia more seriously because the world has forced them to do so. If they are to understand such pressing environmental problems as the greenhouse effect or the consequences of mass extinctions, they will have to overcome their reluctance to look beyond their own specialties: nature does not necessarily respect the arbitrary boundaries established for scientific disciplines. By focusing on entire systems, Gaia provides a framework through which marine biologists, geochemists and geophysicists can integrate their work...
Back at the White House, Bush examined the pictures his photographers had made of Ortega. In shot after shot, Bush noted, was that same fixed stare beyond the people around him, a lonely man both at home and abroad. "Now, we keep pushing him," Bush said. "We don't let him off the hook of holding free elections. He is trapped as the current of democracy goes against...
There is no shortage of humorous moments in Beyond Therapy, and when Durang's script finds an appropriate target the result is hillarious. His comments on masculinity are particularly witty; Bruce and Dr. Framingham obsessively display their chest hairs, and Prudence responds to one of Bruce's breakdowns by saying, "I don't think that men should cry unless something falls on them...