Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...months ago. A prime reason for the accelerating losses, says Eastern trustee Martin Shugrue, is the rise of jet-fuel prices. The airline pays 96 cents per gal., up from 56 cents before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Last week Shugrue urged President Bush to form a task force to find ways to bring oil prices under control. Another money-losing carrier, Pan Am, is laying off workers and switching to smaller jets, while trying to sell its shuttle to Phoenix-based America West...
...then, gay and civil rights activists have been fighting the increasing number of prosecutions. Nor are sodomy laws exclusively aimed at gays; heterosexual sodomy is deemed an impermissible act in 18 states. "These laws criminalize our private lives and relationships," says Robert Bray of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "And if it isn't 10 toes up and 10 toes down, heterosexuals risk going to jail...
...large task for the UC this year is to restore its image on campus as a competent body," said Randal S. Jeffrey '91, chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Divestment and a potential candidate for council chair...
...This task is laid out in the first poem in the book, "Digging" (1966), which is one of Heaney's most famous works. It is also one of many that directly address the writing process itself...
...violence in the country. If we can bury the past, rectify decades of oppression, reclaim the lost generation, overcome the dangerous death throes of right-wing and left- wing extremism and create a real democracy in this country, there would be a great future for South Africa. A colossal task, with colossal challenges. But a start had been made by brave men, and I hoped and believed they would gain the support they deserved...