Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student interest fluctuates from year to year. As students have of late gravitated en masse towards American government, for example, faculty specialists in this field have had their hands full. Obviously, faculty hiring could never keep pace with random shifts in student interest. But if the department finds a particular subfield oversubscribed one year, excising the 25 or so lowest-ranked students--only a handful of whose theses would be in the oversubscribed field--is cruel and unusual punishment...
...Arabs in 1967 -- and still heavily populated by Arabs in 1990. Labor's Shimon Peres believes in trading land for peace. The territory traded would become part of a Palestinian "entity," a cryptogram that many predict will someday be decoded to mean a Palestinian state. While opposing that particular outcome, Labor is at least willing to begin negotiating with the Palestinians and see where the process leads. Likud seems not to be, which is why Shamir did everything he could as Prime Minister to delay the opening of peace talks...
...dismayed to learn of the harassment that one of my neighbors allegedly directed at BGLAD tabling in our dining hall on Monday ["BGLAD Week Tablers Harassed," April 19]. It saddens me that such prejudice and disrespect exist in the world in general and in my own college dormitory in particular...
Portnoff's portrayal of Ligurio in particular suffers from a lack of poison, and the result is a stultifyingly bland performance. His Ligurio is unduly stilted. Portnoff, along with another performer who speaks of "black-guards", mispronounces words and stumbles over his lines on more than a few occasions...
Silverstein said that he believes that college students will have a particular interest in brain tumor awareness programs because on "each campus a handful of people will be directly affected" by the disease...