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From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Re: Watershed?
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Organization: That would be telling.
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Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 10:31:36 GMT
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the Babesther <han@minerva.cis.yale.edu> says:
: What exactly does the term "watershed" mean in the figurative sense?
: What are the origins of this usage?

The metaphor as commonly used is more accurately of a boundary between
two watersheds: an event so decisive that other events will be reckoned
as falling to one side or the other of it, as rain falling on the
Rockies will flow into the Atlantic or the Pacific.
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