Word: split
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Crimson split their weekend series, dropping the game against Saint Lawrence 6-3 before rebounding against Clarkson 3-1. Harvard (5-3-1, 4-2-1 ECAC) currently has nine points in ECAC play, enough to tie the Crimson for first place with rival Cornell...
This year, Tolchin said, genetically modified foods were for the first time a major issue. "All of a sudden bio-engineered foodstuff was a serious issue and the [ACSR] was split on it," he said...
...more about less and less." And as the drive to subdivide the natural world into smaller and smaller bits brought the development of the kind of tools needed for this enterprise (microscopes, telescopes, thermometers, dividing engines and all the other instrumentation required for measuring the new data), disciplines split into subdisciplines and sub-subdisciplines. As a result, isolated in their intellectual silos, scientists and their technological sidekicks literally "reduced" human knowledge to myriad, mutually incomprehensible pinpoints of niche expertise. No matter how esoteric a matter might be today, somebody, somewhere has spent years getting a Ph.D...
...Cross-country travelers could wirelessly update their home pages on the road with pictures from their trip. Guests at a family reunion or wedding could post images online just minutes after snapping them, so everyone who couldn't attend could see the action as it unfolded. Relocating couples could split their house- or apartment-hunting chores and keep each other up to date on their efforts: find something you like, snap a few pictures and let your spouse log on at the office or at home to see what you've discovered...
...curiam" decision - no dissenting opinions, no signatures, just a seven-page document "speaking for the court" - thus avoiding not only the question of federal statute and court-versus-legislature jurisdiction, but also any perception that the highest court in the country might be split along the same lines as the rest...