Word: blanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOTH MAJOR POLITICAL parties try to capture the essence of American government in their names, but a group of student politicians at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, is going a bit further, Campaigning last week in the student government elections, the Boring Party offers voters a a blank piece of paper as its platform and the rallying cry "The Future Lies Ahead." Although one Boring candidate promised students life after death in exchange for their votes, party members pledge only that they will be apathetic in the performance of their duties. --Michigan Daily...
Hollein has flouted the fetishes of dead-end, blank-box modernism--perhaps out of principle but perhaps also because he could not dream of bridling his ferocious drive to invent and surprise. He seems to create buildings with the spirit other architects might bring to an amusement park. His work at its best is lyrical and joyously jam-packed, smart and sensuous, like a Nabokov story. He believes buildings should even be erotic. In the first of two shops he designed for Schul- lin jewelers in Vienna--a plush, narrow space with an irregular fissure in the gleaming facade...
...visit was a sobering look at the ways in which hard-line ideologues have imposed their will on a nation." Eddie Adams, a TIME photographer who, while on assignment for the Associated Press in 1968, took the indelible picture of a Vietnamese general shooting a Viet Cong point-blank, also went back in 1983, though reluctantly. "I didn't think I had left anything there," he says. "I was wrong. Everything came back, but it was all off-key: Russians walking down the streets, the bars all turned into sedate coffee shops. I was a stranger in a familiar place...
...that is, costs above a certain price were to be absorbed by the company. According to the indictment, when labor costs on that contract hit the ceiling, G.E. illegally shifted the overruns to other contracts by altering workers' time cards without their knowledge. Some employees were asked to submit blank cards that were then filled out by managers. G.E. maintains that any juggled numbers were the result of simple procedural "errors" on only 100 time cards out of approximately 100,000 submitted, and has offered to reimburse the Government for mistakes...
...omnipresence of the Action Man experience, coupled with the fact that it is confined mostly to freshmen, seems to indicate that the University itself may be the activator of the Action Man. Perhaps that unnerving phone call simply a requirement, like the Quantitative Reasoning and Computer tests, just another blank for your advisor to check. To anyone demanding to know why this test should be made, I'll propose this example: Harvard's endowment for Widener Library exists partly on the condition that each student pass a swim test before he or she graduates; it is entirely possible that there...