Word: bettereds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charles F. Meng, the vice-president of administration and facilities at Georgetown University, says that straight lectures and multiple case studies might be better means for addressing some of today's issues...
...uses the same digital recording technology that produces the clear tone of the compact disc. And just as the CD sounds better than a regular LP, a DAT tape is a quantum advance from a standard audio tape. The DAT tape is also conveniently small: 2 3/4 in. long, compared with 4 in. for an ordinary cassette. But better sound will initially come at a high price: DAT recorders are expected to run at least $1,000, and prerecorded tapes could cost more than $25. The recorders, along with DAT tapes of everyone from Mozart to | Madonna, could start appearing...
Foreign analysts continue to doubt that Doi and her Socialists will soon rule Japan. Says Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs: "The chances of Doi's becoming Prime Minister are just tiny." The Japanese, however, know better than to tell Takako Doi what she can and cannot do. They remember the deputy mayor of Kobe...
...started trying to get something. There had been no problems because no one had ever rocked the boat. I kept reading these newspaper stories about Keysville blacks seeking political power. Then it hit me: power! The whites thought we were looking for power. I was looking for a better life. I had never even thought about what we were doing in terms of trying to get power...
...sport. When waters were cleaner and trout spawned nearly everywhere, killing and eating the fish were a more common reward for the catch. But a generation raised on conservation ethics is releasing fish to reproduce and perhaps be caught again. Our atavistic selves relish the hunt, but our better natures understand the need to protect what we cherish. Fly-fishing lets us do both...