Word: winterize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...second, reverse, equally unintentional and equally unpleasant experiment sealed my hypothesis. Last winter I spent most of my time in the short view. Shunning the dangerous temptations of the outside world, I worked in my room an average of 12 hours a day, reading for classes and writing my thesis. My breaks consisted of e-mail and instant messages. If I finished a section of my magnum opus or managed some other extraordinary feat, I rewarded myself with TV-watching, web-browsing or--after an all-important upgrade--TV-watching while web-browsing. When lengthier diversions were necessary, I read...
...this position. She worked for several years in Australia in such a position and spent the last year studying environmental practices of several dozen American and European universities. She began her work for Harvard in late March. She was offered the position after giving a presentation at Harvard last winter on her findings...
Specifically GTC hopes to include "green building" practices in the design and construction of new buildings by the University's various schools. Such practices include designing buildings to take advantage of sunlight in an effort to reduce the demands of artificial lighting, making buildings retain heat better in winter and coolness better in summer and improving indoor air quality...
...perspective will guarantee that just as quickly as the country appeared prominently on the world's front pages earlier this year, Austria is going to disappear again as quickly to resume its traditional place--somewhere between the travel and foods sections, and possibly even as a byline on the winter sports page...
...response to a question posed by Professor of German Maria M. Tatar about Sendak's favorite book, the author cited Shakespeare's play, "A Winter's Tale...