Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that George C. Roche III was Hillsdale's voluble president, that commitment made him a hero to American conservatives--that and his decision 14 years ago not to accept any federal funding or allow his students to accept federal loans, in order to avoid Washington's guidelines on affirmative action and equal outlays for women's sports. But students can't bear to go near the kiosk anymore, not since it became a gathering point for the reporters who have gone to Hillsdale to find out if Roche, campus patriarch, truculent moralist, really did carry on a 19-year affair...
Joel Stein's article on the new television shows featuring "buxom female action stars" [TELEVISION, Nov. 8] included a chart that rated the programs according to "jiggle factor." My hope for the next millennium: no one will feel that it is appropriate to use the word jiggle to describe female anatomy in a "news" magazine such as TIME. RACHEL DUNIFON Ann Arbor, Mich...
NEED FOR SPEED Don't assume every PC game will run on your machine, especially if it's a few years old. Action games can be prohibitively slow on anything less than a 200-MHz chip. Always check system requirements before...
With a number of U.S. colleges and universities reducing or eliminating their affirmative action programs, Bial said her test was as a way "to help continue to recruit diverse student groups...
...particular, students complained that administrative action did not begin until it was clear the assaults were part of a trend...