Word: section
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...complaints and suggestions that came up were very similar to those made in Katari's article: the first year is drudgery; you learn the math after you are required to know it for physics; better section leaders are needed; the teaching is lousy. Professor Francis M. Pipkin, chair at the time, mediated the discussion with overt sympathy...
...shots at the conservative biases of many of the University's most cherished scholars. Richard Pipes, Adam B. Ulam, and Harvey C. Mansfield take much of the flak in the arena of politics and the social sciences, while scientists such as sociobiologist E.O. Wilson take their lumps in another section...
...different strategies showed great conceptual depth. There was Shotgun, which propelled a Lego section at the puck as soon as it sensed it, managing to latch on to the prize while its other half found the nearest opponent and forechecked it into the boards. Talk about a goon...
HARVARD'S legacy policy might be a little more defensible if legacies represented a broad cross-section of American society, such that the advantage was spread around a little more equally...
Some Japanese companies, meanwhile, are trying to get the inside track on international missions that have not even been scheduled yet. Shimizu, a construction firm, has opened a space-projects section to develop ideas for a moon base, either Japanese or American. The company has already begun work on how concrete made from lunar soil could be used to form large structures. Ohbayashi, also in the construction business, will join American companies in building a $100 million facility for lunar-base research in Florida...