Word: armed
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...longer has a military draft, all men are required to register on their 18th birthday. So far, 10.4 million, or 96.2% of all eligible men, have done so. But 408,000 have not. Most universities take the position that they should not be called upon to act as the arm for Uncle Sam's finger. "It isn't in keeping with our mission as an institution of higher learning," says Nancy Jessup, a financial aid officer at the University of California. They note that it unfairly singles out students who need loans, while not affecting those...
...pores of the skin." Similarly, parlor chairs were designed to keep the sexes separate and unequal. The gentlemen's chairs were "akin to thrones," according to this diverting account of everyday life in the Victorian era. While men sat back comfortably in their high-backed chairs equipped with arm rests, women were confined to smaller, armless models that encouraged the proper posture: upright, away from the chair back, hands modestly folded...
Ride's own chief mission will come Wednesday, on the fifth day up. She and John Fabian, 44, an Air Force colonel, will use Challenger's 50-ft.-long "cherry picker," a remote-controlled mechanical arm, to pluck a German-built experimental package called the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) out of the cargo bay and let it orbit freely in space. The SPAS is a self-contained laboratory housing eight separate experiments. These involve such potentially important commercial processes as growing crystals for electronic components and forming superfine alloys in the favorable zero-g environment...
...smartly to the minor leagues. The only question: Why had Kittle hit so poorly in the Dodger organization? The answer was that he had a broken neck. That is, without realizing it, he had two crushed vertebrae that pinched a nerve in his neck and numbed his right arm. On his own he underwent a spinal fusion in 1978. How Kittle was injured is still unknown. "But it must have been playing baseball," he says, "because I don't remember being hit by a car." This is how he talks...
Greenspan would have to move quickly to establish his independence, and Volcker would continue his practice of staying at arm's length from Presidents...