Word: opened
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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What particularly bothers students and school officials is that the news of each incident has seemed to spawn others. In an open letter to the college community, Wesleyan President Colin Campbell said he believed the anonymous letter delivered there was one example of "resurgent racism in society at large." Chandler concurs: "Because of the current shift in the national mood, I'm assuming that some rather ugly impulses have been liberated." Says Archie Epps III, dean of undergraduates at Harvard and a black: "In such a climate, an individual who has harbored resentment is more likely to feel free...
...hotels are required to have a system of water pumps and hoses, sprinklers on floors below ground level, an alarm system and a watchman on duty 24 hours a day. Even though many New York hotels were built before World War II and thus have thick walls, windows that open and other safety features, Assistant Fire Chief John Fogarty is worried. "We have at least one hotel fire a day," he says. "We're not free from the possibility of a major catastrophe...
Across the quake-stricken area, able-bodied survivors dug frantically with their hands in search of husbands, wives, children, parents. By night, they slept in the open, huddled together around hundreds of campfires that dotted the countryside...
That night, while thousands huddled in open fields or watched special film showings in the city square, the earth began to rumble. A quake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale devastated Haicheng, collapsing buildings, turning bridges into grotesquely twisted heaps and tearing up roads. The death toll could easily have run into six figures. Thanks to the forewarning, it was probably fewer than...
...making its first profit in 1975. It now produces 40 Unimate and 15 Puma robots a month, and will have estimated sales this calendar year of $42 million. Its chief competitor: Cincinnati Milacron, which makes the sophisticated T3 robot and expects 1980 sales of $32 million. It will soon open a new plant in Greenwood, S.C. Sprouting up are newcomers like Automatix Inc., of Burlington, Mass., which was founded last year with $6 million from, among others, Harvard and M.I.T. Giants like IBM and Texas Instruments are weighing the advantages of getting in on the prospective bonanza. Overall, the fledgling...