Word: core
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...core of Fountain House, though, is its work program. Members perform almost all the chores at the complex, from tending the gardens to keeping the books. Those who do well are placed in part-time entry-level jobs at some 31 companies, including banks, law firms and ad agencies...
Where CSCE might go from there is a matter of intense debate in foreign ministries and think tanks. Last April Czechoslovakia's President Vaclav Havel was among the first to propose that it become the core of a new all-European security organization replacing NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Moscow found the idea appealing because CSCE is the only organization that links Eastern and Western Europe -- and the U.S.S.R. belongs to it. German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher has been pushing a strengthened CSCE for a similar purpose: to keep the Soviets from feeling isolated and resentful...
Bush repeated the core demand of nine U.N. resolutions passed over the past two months: Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait, totally and unconditionally. But "in the aftermath," said the President, "there may be opportunities for Iraq and Kuwait to settle their differences permanently . . . and for all the states and the peoples of the region to settle the conflict that divides the Arabs from Israel." The hint of future Iraqi-Kuwaiti negotiations on such points as border disputes, ownership of oil fields and Iraqi access to the Persian Gulf was not new. But the mention of Israel seemed to contradict...
...adults-only rating. The X was the forbidden zone, which strong directors could fight, sometimes successfully, to avoid. The NC-17 is different: a limbo rating. Will the board award it more freely? Will the studios declare it taboo? What if a cynical porno distributor submits his hard-core film for a rating and gets the same NC-17? Will publishers and theater owners, seeing the designation as a new euphemism for X, allow movies so rated to be advertised and exhibited? So far, nobody knows...
...auditory and tactile access to objects which have been unfairly suppressed in America. Our first project is to drive a Ford Pinto into the middle of Harvard Yard. Secondly, we will douse Archie Epps and Joseph Nye in Tab Cola. Then, we will stop at nothing short of a Core course discussing the needlessly canceled NBC hit, "Manimal...