Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somewhere in the Sea of Japan, just off Sakhalin island, is a "black box"-its actual color is orange-from Korean Air Lines Flight 007. The flight data inside would probably answer some of the questions about how and why the wayward aircraft met its fate. The waterproof container is heavily reinforced to survive impact and ocean depths down to 20,000 ft. For 30 days it will automatically emit a sonar signal that can be heard for up to five miles under water. Many of these boxes have been recovered in the past, but if the one from...
...rest of the century precisely as they did during the 1970s. In fact, such patterns are apt to be tempered, changed in intensity or direction. Extrapolating from the 1970 census, the Government predicted a 1980 U.S. population of 221 million; that turned out to be short of the actual number by 5 million people. Explains Gregory Spencer of the Census Bureau: "No one who leaves New York has to sign out. No one who goes to Florida has to check with us." The bureau uses figures for school enrollment, federal transfer payments and driver-license registrations, among other measures...
Call them the L.A. Raiders of the Ivy League, the only team that travels to its home games. Because while Columbia renovated Baker field, the closest thing the Lions will have to actual home turf will be the hard green carpet of Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Columbia students will have to leave the state to see their own Homecoming...
...council revote is not automatic after the ethics commission ruling, but Councilor David A. Wylie said he will reintroduce the proposal at next Monday's meeting. Because of various parliamentary technicalities which opponents are likely to use, the actual council vote will probably not take place for another three weeks...
...ACSR should now wait to hear what the Corporation decides before resuming a discussion of the South Africa question. But Jonathan Cedarbaum '83, this year's undergraduate member, says that Calkins's statement merely shows how wide the gap is "between the Corporation's rhetoric and both its actual concern and practice" for the plight of Black South Africans. His term on the ACSR revealed to him, he says, that issues of shareholder responsibility are "merely inconveniences that have to be taken care of" for the Corporation, "rather than pressing matters that one should feel obliged to act on." Cedarbaum...