Word: appears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprisingly, the Faculty Committee attempted to appear progressive while nickel-and-diming the report's recommendations to death...
UNFORTUNATELY, the specific policy recommendations of the Verba Committee appear unsalvageable. It would be nice if groups such as the Minority Students Alliance (MSA), which has spearheaded the push for minority faculty in the past, could convince the Faculty Committee to reconsider. But from a purely pragmatic standpoint, holding out for the fulfillment of the Verba Report's policy recommendations would be less effective than taking what the Faculty Committee has offered and exploiting it to the maximum...
...Elvis' Sun collection and Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue" and Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" and the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds just had to be playing on records. As it is, music today is getting closer and closer to being embodied in the commodity that can only appear in the forms of gold and platinum. C.D.'s may improve the sound, but they're going to ruin the music...
...concessions that are unforeseen now, but they do not want to go to the table if their presence offers nothing but a public relations success for De Klerk by making him look like a peacemaker. Ramaphosa, head of the black National Union of Mineworkers, concedes that the government does appear to be seeking change. "One could say they are willing to usher in a new South Africa," he says, "but some of us have serious doubts because they are still talking about group rights. That to us is still apartheid." Even so, black leaders do not want to pass...
...associated with numerous lesser faults, among them the Hayward fault, which undercuts Berkeley and Oakland, and the San Jacinto fault, near San Bernardino. Some parts of the San Andreas are more dangerous than others. One segment that lies to the south of the Santa Cruz mountains does not appear prone to large jolts at all. "It just creeps along," says geophysicist Ross Stein of the USGS. "Probably & there's some remarkable material down there that, like talcum powder, acts as a lubricant...