Word: section
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According to Lacovara, one section of the survey asks students what specific security issues need to be addressed. Other questions focus on students' personal habits, the value of property in student rooms, the quality of campus lighting and the effectiveness of entryway locks...
...Gorbachev? Who made the best career move last week? Who is more outrageous, Clayton Williams or Gus Savage? And why might James Baker go to Wyoming for more than the fishing and beautiful scenery? You can discover the answers to all these questions in our expanded, one-page Grapevine section, now running at the front of the magazine. First introduced in Nation two years ago, Grapevine offered readers an insidey look at politics in Washington and across the country. We'll still give you a behind-the-scenes look at those who govern us, but now the whole world...
...task of gathering many of the items and tracking down the accuracy of the section falls to reporter-researcher David Ellis. Known to colleagues as "Mr. Insider," Ellis has a keen ear for odd information and irreverent observation and is a storehouse of facts about the famous and infamous. He fondly recalls, for example, that Jimi Hendrix had a disastrous turn as an opening act for the Monkees in 1967. As comfortable with sports trivia as he is with political arcana, Ellis considers 1972 a noteworthy year because a New York Yankee (Rich McKinney) made four errors in one game...
Some 15 miles away, near the intersection of Coldwater Canyon and Roscoe boulevards, in the San Fernando Valley working-class section of North Hollywood, Buddhist monks pray in a Thai temple pungent with incense and dominated by a 10-ft. statue of Buddha. On weekends Thai families turn the temple's parking lot into a festival straight out of Bangkok...
...Happy Land Social Club was a Hispanic, mostly Honduran, gathering spot in a seedy commercial section of the Bronx. It was ordered to close in November 1988 because it had no fire exits, sprinkler system, fire alarm or emergency lighting. It did shut down, but only briefly. Police knew it had reopened; they arrested its bartender last July for selling liquor without a license...