Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where has my little dog gone?" That old musical question now has a modern answer. A California-based company called Infopet is selling a - computer-age tag: a microchip that is easily implanted between a pet's shoulder blades. The semiconductor carries a ten-digit code, which can be read by a scanner. When the code is punched into Infopet's computers, an animal's finder can obtain such data as the pet's license number, medical condition and, most important, the owner's phone number...
...member of the committee revising the platform, reported that the debate last week over property was so intense that "it took hours just to write one sentence." Sometimes the differences appeared to be more semantic than real. Instead of "private" property, for example, the document was amended to read property derived from "individual labor." The new easing of restrictions might allow for the emergence of small, privately owned businesses or permit factories to form their own private production units for the manufacture of, say, tools or farm implements...
...term had it easy. Bush was an infinitely greater challenge. In writing his 1988 G.O.P. Convention address, Noonan miraculously transformed the Bush of the stumbling syntax and clotted catch- phrases into a "quiet" leader sensitive enough to glimpse "a thousand points of light" but strong enough to say flatly, "Read my lips: no new taxes...
Professor Clive was, then, hardly in sync with the dominant tune. One didn't have to attract his attention. It was indeed difficult to avoid it. When I entered Harvard, I read the Confi-Guide's annual admonition: "Mother Harvard doesn't cuddle her young." John Clive rendered this statement a falsehood, and made this university so much more of a human place...
...idea. In other words, this stuff is less graphic than the innuendo in "Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind." Yet prim Harvard librarians hide these journals away in the Erotic Cage, effectively keeping them from the perverts (psychologists, sociologists, biologists, and the like) who want to read them...