Word: blows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although he just plays it to be social," Dennis Ineman '87 admits that there are times when he does "blow of part of a class" to get in just one more game...
They have a term project to develop and deploy a cruise missile in the bell tower, and then use it to blow up the Lampoon sometime during reading period. It's 50 percent of their grade, and they were afraid they'd have to cancel the project if Adams House inspired a similar anti-nuke movement in Lowell. They're already past the date when they can drop the course without penalty...
...test of the fountain last Monday and Tuesday revealed that winds above 15 knots blow away the water vapor, ruining the fountains rainbow affect, Oommen said...
...another blow against affirmative action, the Justice Department has asked some 50 states, counties and cities to abandon numerical goals in hiring or promoting women and minorities. Ironically, the quotas were established as a result of lawsuits filed by the Justice Department itself under previous Administrations. William Bradford Reynolds, head of the department's civil rights division, said the Reagan Administration is not interested in "displacing" workers who are currently employed under quotas...
Finally, the Soviets could attack a Star Wars system directly. Orbiting satellites are vastly easier than missiles or warheads to track and draw a bead on. Just two possibilities: the Soviets could orbit a "space mine" that would blow up near an American satellite and destroy it, or a countersatellite that would discharge a cloud of pellets, capable at orbital speeds of piercing steel, or even beach sand, which could pit and disable laser mirrors. American satellites might be defended against such attacks. But once that kind of cycle begins, says William Shuler, coordinator of S.D.I. research at Livermore...