Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even APES, HAGS or HAMS. These prefixes were all banned from the state's automobile license plates on grounds of taste by the Iowa Department of Transportation. But since new plates were issued last month, 130 irate motorists in Scott County have returned the plates because they bore the prefix GAY. One woman wrote: "I cannot be a single teacher and sport those plates." A traveling salesman complained that while he was in Chicago, his car doors were kicked in because of the plates...
...what appeared to be a cautious attempt to avoid inciting the army, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the opposition's exiled religious leader, last week issued new orders to his followers to avoid "indiscriminate violence." He also declared that he bore "no hostility" toward countries that might give the Shah asylum and would allow continued oil shipments to the West. "Our relations with the U.S.," he added, "would be good relations as long as the U.S. stops supporting the Shah and leaves us to decide our own destiny...
...courting both. A retrospective of her paintings (priced between $6,500 and $12,000) is now on display at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa. The new visibility, however, does not mean that Carolyn plans to break her policy and see the exhibits of other artists. "They bore me," she says...
...other deaths were the subject of a coroner's inquiry in Matthews Ridge, Guyana. The chief medical examiner noted that some victims bore needle marks on their arms and concluded that they had been murdered with cyanide injections. Another inquiry witness, Cult Survivor Stanley Clayton, said that many who drank the cyanide-laced Kool-Aid did so only after Jones had pulled them "up from their seats saying they must go." A number of the dead, moreover, were small children or infirm older people who were probably unaware of what they were drinking. There is also a question that...
Since 1968, total fees have more than doubled--and as the University grows gradually more dependent on the student revenue, administrative anxiety increases. This year's report bore the warning that "increases of this magnitude cannot continue without significantly affecting the composition" of Harvard's student body...