Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's only answer to the N.U. blitz was a Julie Sasner slapshot which slipped through Dyer's arm with under eight minutes to play in regulation...
There were a couple of Tiger opportunities in the extra session, but White rose to the occasion, getting her leg pads, glove, or even the crook of her arm on some shots...
...though others question its usefulness. "I don't think a testing program at a university will yield objective data on the distribution of the disease," says Boston University President John Silber. "People who don't think they have AIDS are not going to be very interested in getting their arm punched just for the hell of it." Notes Dr. James Brown, director of student health services at the University of California, Berkeley: "I don't think doing it on one campus is going to tell you anything." The President reportedly introduced the idea of testing college students last summer...
...severity of the Oct. 19 crash. Most analyses of Black Monday, however, have assumed that the stock-exchange computers on the receiving end of the selling torrent held up fairly well. Not so, says a report released last week by the General Accounting Office, the congressional investigative arm. According to the GAO, the computer systems that handle securities trading on the New York Stock Exchange suffered repeated breakdowns the week of the crash, adding significantly to the confusion and fueling the selling panic. "The October crash was a crisis that nearly became a disaster," said Comptroller General Charles Bowsher, head...
...obviously from the Wes Craven crowd. That is the most certain way we're going to pull an audience in. Everyone that loved Nightmare on Elm Street 1, 2, and 3 will say, "OK, I want a really good scary movie. I want my girlfriend to grab my arm," and the whole thing. We are hoping that through the reviews and by talking with journalists and us going on the road, we can begin communicate that there are other levels to this movie that can also be enjoyed, and hope we get a broader, or what we call a cross...