Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poor circulation has plagued Lamont's patrons and staff since classes began. Cole, who earlier this month said that she had "not made any actual progress," in resolving the problem yesterday called the situation "a classic case of lack of communication" between her staff...
...arsonist or bomber, rather than the mass murderer, may be the most appropriate model for understanding the Tylenol murderer. "Other killers," he says, "have a certain satisfaction in stalking their victims. But this is a much more technically oriented crime; the killer does not perceive as clearly the actual death of his victims." Who gets killed appears to be a matter of indifference. Even gunmen like Charles Whitman, who killed 16 people from his perch in a Texas tower in 1966, have more direct contact with their victims. Rarely have the time and distance between murderous act and deadly result...
...then standing politely in a row, ready to pay for your medicine. The trouble with poison is that you take it yourself, even when the murderer has spiked the gum on the envelope or when a Borgia has switched the wine. It is the victim who does the actual killing. That is why moviemakers focus so carefully on the glass of smoky milk jiggling on the silver tray as it progresses up the winding staircase toward the invalid wife. They know that we will want to follow the death instrument in the slowest motion, to see it grasped eagerly...
...gradual transfer of authority from Britain to China over a 15-to-30-year period, or joint rule by a two-nation committee. Another way out of the impasse would be a deal that makes an artificial but face-saving distinction between the recognition of sovereignty and its actual exercise. Britain could recognize Peking's claim, fly the Chinese flag alongside the Union Jack over Government House and make other symbolic concessions while maintaining its present administrative control. Noted a British diplomat: "This would replace the fiction that Hong Kong is part of Britain with the fiction that...
Meanwhile, Wendy's weighed in with its own beef, claiming in a $25 million federal suit that Burger King's ads are false and misleading. Wendy's officials contend that their burgers are actually the best tasting of the lot, since they are made from fresh meat whereas both McDonald's and Burger King patties begin with frozen meat. Wendy's has also called for a "national taste test" among actual hamburger eaters to settle the searing issue once...