Word: tells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Omigod, Omigod, it's midterms, I'm late with a 10-page paper, my section leader called me at midnight on Friday to tell me I'm failing--at midnight on Friday--I failed the GRE's, my thesis advisor wants an outline, I have a job interview tomorrow, and my boss wants me to go to work extra hours this week...
...appear to be floating in air. It would be 2 1/2 ft. high and have water flowing evenly and slowly across its flat surface. Underneath the water, etched in the stone and looking like points of a sundial, would be the words -- the names and the events -- that would tell the history of the civil rights era. They begin with 17 MAY 1954 SUPREME COURT OUTLAWS SCHOOL SEGREGATION IN BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION and end with 4 APR 1968 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ASSASSINATED MEMPHIS, TN (there will be 53 entries in all, with a conspicuous space before...
...will be affected over the long term. Though the region's economy is still growing, at least since 1983 it has fallen behind that of the Los Angeles area, and the Bay Area has lost relative importance as a financial, insurance and manufacturing center. It is too early to tell whether the earthquake will affect that trend, especially since the Los Angeles area is equally, if not more, vulnerable to the fearsome...
...Westinghouse executive who sold nuclear reactors to utilities. Oliver always respected his father but early on was determined to follow a different career path. By the fourth grade he wanted to be a forest ranger and was learning to play the guitar. "I couldn't tell whether I wanted to be Smokey the Bear or Chuck Berry," says Oliver, "and eventually I found I could do both...
...terms of shock value, asserting that Libya has supported the cause of international terrorism ranks right up there with calling the Pope Catholic. Except in this case, the asserter was Colonel Muammar Gaddafi himself. To hear the Libyan leader tell it, in an interview with the Egyptian weekly al- Musawwar, he went to the aid of unspecified terrorist groups in the conviction that they were practicing revolutionary violence for the Arab cause, which is good stuff. Imagine Gaddafi's horror, then, when he discovered that his hijacking, trigger-happy clients actually meant to exercise "terrorism for the sake of terrorism...