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...remember, yes, it happened, running away from two boys who tried to hold me up with a razor blade one night in Harlem. I'm not aware of my legs lifting or my arms pumping or any part of running. I can't see. I am floating through a blur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weathermen're Shot, They're Bleeding, They're Running, They're Wiping Stuff Out | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

...Student Council resolution to oppose the new federal law that would deny guaranteed federal loans to those who refused to register for the draft is the product of monstrous hubris. In addition, this resolution, passed on Monday, sports several disingenuous arguments that effectively blur the issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Registration | 2/24/1983 | See Source »

...becomes progressively more difficult, however, even to determine which side of the line he occupies. Distinctions blur. The magistrate flies into hysterics on learning that Marta allowed the maid's son to touch his Mickey Mouse collection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symbols | 2/4/1983 | See Source »

Just as bankers were gearing up last week to launch the new money-market accounts that pay high interest, federal regulators authorized financial institutions to offer yet another option beginning Jan. 5 that will almost totally blur the distinction between savings and checking deposits. The account will require a minimum balance of $2,500, but it will have no interest ceiling, and depositors will be able to write an unlimited number of checks. Similar to so-called NOW checking accounts that currently have an interest lid of 5¼%, this latest innovation has already been dubbed the Super...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super-NOW | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...much Western press coverage, the territory is more often called by its official label--South-West Africa--than by the native derivative it will supposedly assume when and if it gains its independence. The longer Western viewers think of it as South-West Africa, the more they tend to blur its saga together with that of South Africa--the nation which has held power in Namibia since 1920 under a League of Nations mandate, and which still refuses to relinquish the territory despite repeated World Court and United Nations demands...

Author: By Amy E. Schwart:, | Title: Cycles of Oblivion | 12/16/1982 | See Source »

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