Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thursday nights in Harkness Commons in many ways reflect this tug-of-war between public spiritedness and corporate glamour...
Councillors also took several minutes to reflect on last week's City Council elections. Of the six councillors who sought re-election, five--with the exception of Danehy--were returned to office...
...garbage raiders, happy in the suburbs and virtually harmless. Last year the state paid less than $7,000 to corn farmers because of bear damage. This is a tolerable figure. It would cost more to keep a bear in the zoo. A citizen determined to be grumpy might reflect that while the last recorded human fatality from a bear attack in New Hampshire was in the 1700s, the last recorded human death from a hunter's blunder was last week...
...most perilous assault ever. All the major military powers are working on stealth technologies designed to defeat radar. The U.S. Air Force's new B-2 Stealth bomber, for example, is supposedly almost invisible to radar because its sleek shape and special composite construction tend to absorb rather than reflect electronic signals. The same techniques will soon be used to introduce stealth missiles, ships, satellites and tanks. Moreover, military designers have developed missiles and other weapons that can zero in on electronic signals and thus destroy the ships and planes carrying radar. Faced with these trends, some Pentagon experts have...
...Wexton did not reflect on the experience with such equanimity. He charged that in stealing the real Dailies, the Cornellians may have "violated several laws...