Word: heightened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important way of increasing public service on Harvard's campus is to link it to interethnic events. This would not only increase public service at Harvard, but would also make cultural exchange more effective. Many events that aim to foster greater understanding only heighten differences between groups. Students often come as representatives of their perspectives, acting as cultural docents for their peers in an impersonal exchange...
...safety alert issued by the police department contains a series of safety guidelines designed "to heighten awareness of potentially dangerous situations and to promote safety within the Harvard community...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV DIED IN 1977 to mixed reviews. Not everyone was captivated by his erudition, multilingual wordplay and narrative frolics. But those who tuned to his wavelength came to appreciate that the style and gamesmanship so intimidating to his competition disguised the author's larger task: to heighten the pleasures of the natural world and the gratifications of personal creativity...
...received death threats, including one faxed to the courtroom during his summation. "We do get threats, so we have to have protection," Cochran shrugs. "It's just one of those things." But given Farrakhan's reputation for antiwhite and anti-Semitic invective, Cochran's decision could not help but heighten tensions around the court...
...paintings, however, as much as their great antiquity, that makes them so surprising. The artwork in the Cosquer cave is nothing more than the crude outline of a human hand. The Chauvet cave drawings, made 30 centuries earlier, are exquisitely rendered likenesses that use the caverns' natural contours to heighten a sense of perspective. The contrast suggests that the art of early man did not mature steadily in any simple linear fashion. Says Patrice Baghain, a regional director of the French Culture Ministry: "It throws the entire notion of progressive artistic development into question...