Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...endlessly scrutinize the placement of every bit of information. "We are completely involved in the visual detail of the page," says Gary Deaton, who supervises TIME'S crew of ten coders. "We pore over every millimeter of the magazine to make sure that everything falls in place, that border lines don't overlap and that pages have a uniform appearance...
...Kars in the "Land of Far Beyond." Near by, Noah's ark went aground on Mount Ararat, and the Eden of Islamic myth bloomed. Persian, Turk and Russian battled over Kars for centuries. More prosaically, we learn that, except for Norway, Turkey is the only NATO country to border the U.S.S.R...
...Kenya he discovers a universal shabbiness imposed by the use of concrete: "The Asiatics' love of bright colors, too, is betrayed by the plastic paint they slap on everywhere, which flakes and peels as the colors of their native fabrics and tiles never did." A few passages border on old-fashioned disrespectful wog-whomping, though some of the author's deepest disdain is reserved for the scraggly, underwashed Western students who can be found everywhere: "They were hot and smelly, and seemed to be sitting on top of me, sticking bits of themselves into...
...think now students are beginning to realize that we only have a week and a half of reading period this fall, and no one is very happy about it," said Benjamin I. Border '85, a member of the student-faculty Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE). The committee is discussing ways of improving reading period in general...
During my last week in the town of Esteli on June 13, 1,500 contras descended from the Honduran border where they were receiving training from U.S. military personnel. They opened fire on civilians including children, pregnant women and students at an agricultural school about two miles outside of this town. In addition, the contras set fire to the machinery, supplies and crops of an adjacent, three-year old potato farm established and run by representatives from the Dutch government. At least $2.5 million worth of damage was caused by this attack--not to mention the many lives lost...