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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Howard Sands set the pace at first singles, easily dispatching Martin Wostenholme, 6-1, 6-4. Sands' precise groundstroking highlighted the match as he successfully thwarted Wostenholme's attempts to alter the game's speed. Wostenholme, a freshman from Ottawa, is currently ranked among the top ten in the world on the junior tournament circuit...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Netmen Conquer Stunned Yalies, 8-1, Remain Undefeated in Ivy League Play | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...stand for individual hairs, it has to be very general." In the largest studies, the face may almost vanish in the welter of information, becoming ungraspable, as the original photograph never was. In between there are many thresholds of transition, where the changes of size alter the whole relationship, within the image, of photography (the source) to painting (the product). Sometimes, more recently, Close seems to abandon the grid altogether, transforming his standard face of Philip Glass into an almost rococo swirl of repeated fingerprints impressed on the canvas from an ink pad: a literal parody, if ever there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Close, Closer, Closest | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

PRINCETON. N.J.--Princeton University's faculty this week heatedly debated several proposals to alter tenure and hiring procedures which allegedly discriminate against women...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Princeton Debates Tenure Process | 4/18/1981 | See Source »

...Student Assembly committee voted last night to alter a compromise with the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) on the funding for a new Student Council proposed by the recently released Dowling Report...

Author: By Linda F. Sugin, | Title: Committee Vote Changes RUS Money Compromise | 4/15/1981 | See Source »

Such a synthesis cannot fairly be called a scientific revolution because it does not drastically alter the view science presents of the world. It is more a "scientific fusion," a period when old facts are looked at in new ways. That is not to say that this period was without theoretical advance, but instead that its exceptional feature was the success with which scientists removed conceptual obstacles to an understanding of how divergent biological disciplines could fit within the same theoretical framework...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: The Ongoing Evolutionary Synthesis | 4/15/1981 | See Source »

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