Word: particularizing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...particular you take the cheap line on recent threats to Black students. Why do you campaign only for the Administration to make the threatened feel safe? Why do you not campaign also, long and hard and in detail, against those who make the threats, as well as against those who "normally" foster such outrages, encourage them, enjoy them, privately applaud them? Unless Massachusetts and University Halls have dispatched youthful agents to shout racist remarks or scribble the snotty graffitti on Harvard's bathroom and elevator walls, or Faculty members and other employees commit these offenses, it must be your White...
Some athletes train hard for many years to achieve excellence in a particular sport. Other athletes are naturals, like the Harvard water polo team's goalie, Rich Reid...
...provide for the safety of identifiable groups of students, e.g., students traveling from Lamont to the River Houses at night. Student proposals for increased security expenditures must be presented in terms of long-run costs and benefits to the community at large. Over the short run, the responsibility for particular choices (shall I go to Elsie's alone?) rests squarely on the shoulders of the individual student...
Hemorrhagic Fevers. A deadly collection of virus-caused illnesses, they have so far been found mostly in Africa and other tropical regions. Patients run high temperatures for several days, then hemorrhage from the nose, mouth and intestine. Depending on the particular type of hemorrhagic fever, up to 90% of victims die. Last year such fevers claimed more than a thousand lives. The viruses live in animals apparently without causing any symptoms, then are passed to human beings. In Lassa fever, the organism lives in a particular type of rat that infests rural dwellings in West Africa. It spreads to villagers...
...NCPAC chairman John T. Dolan wanted to support Reagan most aggressively in states where Carter seemed strongest, and therefore launched an advertising campaign critical of Carter's failures to realize promises made in 1976. Some of the commercials made harsher attacks than others, and CBS reportedly cited one particular advertisement to be in poor taste. The broadcasting company refused to air the ad, and rejected all other commercials paid for by any independent political groups...