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...outgrown each other." POSSLQ. People of the opposite sex sharing living quarters. A creation of Washington officialese to describe the inhabitants of miscellaneous households. Primary relationship. He strays from the commitment once in a while. Or she has too, but only that weekend with an old friend. Relationship. The object of the commitment. To be kept in repair, it is "worked at." There are many degrees of intensification and levels of progression, e.g., real relationship, ongoing relationship. The 1970s term "meaningful relationship" is out. Sensitive. Term of praise when applied to men. Stereotypical, and thus insensitive, when applied to women...
Whether Harvard's union-busting tactics are based on misguided paternalism or outright contempt for workers' fights, it is high time that students in this University take a stand and object to use of their tuition dollars to subsidize the University's unfair labor practices. Michael Dinnerstein Harvard College '82 Harvard Clerical Worker '82-'83 Harvard Law School...
Powers added that University unions generally object more when the contracts will be going to non-union companies, but added that the work goes to both union and non-union firms...
...here: because the thickness of the bronze casting varies in an unpredictable way, and hence the heat of the metal and the rate of fusion of the enamel vary as well, the enamel colors run and waver into one another like wet watercolor, somewhat blurring the identity of the object they cover. This makes the enamel pieces slightly more abstract, fractionally less decipherable, than the patinated ones. Graves, whose SoHo studio contains one of the most formidable collections of Triffid-like indoor plants in Manhattan, recalls that the idea for doing sculpture in this way came...
...potential jurors to fill out a 42-page questionnaire. The 110 wide-ranging questions include: "Have you or has any member of your family or any acquaintance ever owned a De Lorean gull-winged sports car?" "Have you or any member of your family used cocaine?" "Do you object to the Government being involved in 'sting' undercover operations, where the Government takes the role of supplying drugs to the person who wants to buy them...