Word: buford
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also some students in Canaday voted for Buford Govjok--a ficticious, write-in candidate. Melendez stated that all votes for this "person" will be discounted...
...major beneficiary. Yale-educated Michael Thomas, who at 46 has had successful careers in both milieus (the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lehman Brothers), has distilled from the darker lunacies of these worlds a novel of crackling humor and mordant observation. Its bigger-than-Barron 's protagonist is Oilman Buford ("Bubber") Gudge IV, who has been content to nurse his multibillion-dollar fortune in the Texas Panhandle until lust and vengeance propel him forth like a plague of pissants...
Many other scientists were understandably cautious. In 1975 Berkeley Physicist P. Buford Price also thought he had found a monopole. Looking for cosmic rays, Price and three colleagues developed a multilayered plastic sandwich to record the tracks left by subatomic particles and launched the contraption over Iowa in a helium balloon. During three days, the particle detector recorded 75 hits, one much different from the rest. When Price published a paper claiming to have found a monopole "candidate," the scientific community's excitement soon gave way to skepticism. In the end, Price admitted he had been a bit hasty...
...shooting policy," he says of the department. "Now we are working with the community." But Harry Dolan, director of the former Watts Writer Workshop, disagrees. Says he: "The resentment is building again. You just can't keep shooting people without someone some time shooting back." In Boston, Buford Kaigler of the Human Rights Commission feels that in cases of police brutality, blacks "have shown a willingness to wait for a ruling from the judicial process." But he warns: "When there's an appearance of a perversion of the judicial process, people take to the streets." Agrees Joseph...