Word: dissimilarities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty's office in University Hall, leaving a campus fraught with student agitation and faculty in-fighting. However, within the same month Dunlop departed an academic pressure cooker, he was thrown into another fire as President Nixon's director of the Cost of Living Council. There he faced dissimilar yet equally challenging problems...
...Collier formula, devised in the early 1970s by a former assistant dean of the College. Bruce Collier, seeks to address the disparities among the newly dissimilar Houses through a variety of subjective "pain" factors, based on different living conditions. For example, if a student lives in a suite's living room or if a student's bedroom serves as a passageway to a bathroom, then the rooming configuration receives a certain number of "pain" points. Using information on every one of the College's nine types of room configurations, the Collier formula tries to minimize the pain while maximizing...
...candidates' styles could not be more dissimilar. Danforth, an uncommonly shy campaigner who appears on the stump infrequently, is an ordained Episcopal priest and an heir to the Ralston Purina dog-food and cereal fortune. He is emphasizing his efforts to help two beleaguered groups-the state's auto workers (with increased tariff protections against imports) and its farmers (with rural enterprise zones). But, as the first Republican elected to the Senate from Missouri since 1946, Danforth is de-emphasizing his ties to the Reagan economic program. One of his political ads urges voters to forget the Republican...
King is not the first to turn his fiction over to the echo chamber of pop culture. Writers as dissimilar as Thomas Pynchon and Donald Barthelme have toyed for years with the mass-produced icons that have invaded the communal memory. But King takes them dead seriously, and so, evidently, do his millions of readers. A devoted child of the audiovisual age, the millionaire author still likes to get up in the morning and switch on rock 'n' roll. King, his wife Tabitha and their three children alternate between an airy modern house in a Maine village...
...random housing lottery, administrators agree, would successfully bring those dissimilar shoulders together. None worry that a random lottery would significantly impede the support services provided for minority groups by Houses in which they are heavily represented; after all, all Houses would contain minorities in proportions mirroring those in the University community. Besides, support structures, in the form of non-House groups and activities, would remain. Most acknowledge, too, that truly random assignment of rooming groups would be administratively simpler and less susceptible to fraud...