Word: accession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ford, flush with profits after four prosperous years, will acquire instant . access to the market for ultra-luxurious driving machines. Automotive experts expect Jaguar to use the cash infusion to develop new, more competitively priced models...
...April to become an unpaid consultant to the National Space Council, which Quayle heads. But the deal seems doomed. One problem: Clancy wants a full-time role in shaping policy, while Quayle is looking for a celebrity space booster. A bigger obstacle may be the law requiring officials with access to classified information to let Government censors peek at their manuscripts before publication. How could they be persuaded that those details of weapons and spycraft Clancy knits into his yarns are not national secrets...
Four broad options for changing the lotteryhave emerged, Jewett said. One is thestudent-generated proposal for "non-orderedchoice," in which students select four houses andare randomly assigned to one of them. Anotherwould modify "partial randomization" to allowstudents partial access to a second- orthird-choice house if their first choice meets itsquota, Jewett said...
...Students are walking around with disks with infected Wordperfect programs," Samenfeld said. "It is an easy access point for the virus. We were successful in clearing the virus out of the lab, but that doesn't mean there aren't students who have it on their disks or on their hard drives...
...situation has since become more grave for defenders of this right, with an increasingly antagonistic Republican administration in office and a Supreme Court handing down decisions like this past July's answer in Webster v. Reproductive Services, which made it legal for a state to restrict a woman's access to abortion...