Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trucks are a breed apart from their clunky forerunners. They are easier to drive and more comfortable to ride in. Says Lynette Maker, a nurse in Burlington, Wis., of her new Cherokee Chief Jeep: "It has enough room for hauling and doesn't drive like a truck." The vehicles can also be purchased with air conditioning, power seats and expensive stereo equipment. Says Ed Rikess, owner of Southview Chevrolet in St. Paul: "The biggest option is the fanciest music system we can get." One out of four small pickups is sold with four-wheel drive, which provides greater traction...
...restrictions, Nicaragua in recent weeks has denied at least 27 prominent opposition figures permission to travel outside the country. In addition, a much touted "national dialogue," in which political parties, church authorities and social groups were to join in thrashing out the nation's problems, began to fall apart when some members of the main opposition group withdrew, charging that the display of pluralism was an empty gesture. "The dialogue is the difference between war and peace," said an opposition member. "Nobody wants to say he's chosen war, but it certainly looks like an impasse...
...Luxembourg, protesters swamped the U.S. and Japanese embassies with so many telephone calls that they blocked the lines. In cities as far apart as Bonn, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Christchurch, New Zealand, demonstrators paraded outside the two nations' embassies. In Copenhagen, the harbor statue of the Little Mermaid had a Japanese flag draped at her feet and was blindfolded with an American flag; she was also impaled by a symbolic harpoon. These protests were held around the world last week in the name of peace-peace for the threatened leviathan of the deep, the sperm whale...
...marriage at the same time,'" says Nancy Zaroulis, who ignored everyone's advice and both married and co-wrote Who Spoke Up? with Gerald J. Sullivan '43. "Actually the book brought us closer together. Now we have to look for another book to write or the marriage will fall apart," Zaroulis says...
Since the Pac-10 and the Ivy League have never had much of an athletic relationship, and since the schools are three thousands miles apart, both squads are relying on hearsay, rather than detailed scouting reports, to prepare for their NCAA quarterfinal showdown Sunday...