Word: groups
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...incidents have spurred students and faculty members to look anew at long-simmering problems between the races, both on campus and off. Acknowledges Susan Hobbs, a white Williams senior: "There has been apprehension about relations between minorities and whites." Another white Williams student wonders why "each group seems to stick together, without reaching out to each other." Says Darrell McWhorter, a black senior who is president of the Williams student council: "There is really nothing different here from the world outside. These incidents have just shown that Williams does not exist in a vacuum." Says Harvard's Jackson: "Until...
...more than 700. Though the costs of the damage to the 26-story hotel have not yet been figured, MGM officials do not expect to reopen the building until July. As MGM was hit with the first of a potential flood of lawsuits, a $250 million claim from a group of Mexican tourists who lost 15 of their number, a few answers were beginning to emerge...
...largest group of victims was found in the rubble of the 15th century Church of Santa Maria Assunta at Balvano. Three hundred parishioners, mostly mothers and children receiving instructions for their First Communion, were attending evening Mass when the marble floor began to heave and the heavy candlesticks to wobble on the main altar. "It was as though a giant passing train had shaken the building to its foundations," recalled Father Giuseppe Pagliuca, the parish priest. As the terrified congregation fled toward the doors, the huge roof split in two and collapsed, throwing Pagliuca clear but burying the worshipers under...
...meeting with a group of Reagan's aides last week, a delegation of middle-of-the-road Salvadoreans received assurances of increased U.S. military aid for counterinsurgency operations, but the Reagan team issued an accompanying warning against any notions about mounting a right-wing coup against the junta...
...fingers. The computer is simply plugged into an electric outlet; cables run from the computer along the robot's arm and transmit instructions in the form of electric impulses to the claw; for heavy work, robots use hydraulic pressure. The Robot Institute of America, an industrial trade group, therefore offers a contemporary, if somewhat prolix, definition of a robot: "A reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools or specialized devices, through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks...