Word: break
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the speaker's canopy, the Commencement sound and light systems are used only during these first weeks of summer break. The two systems together are worth approximately $60,000, says Pete Clancy, director of Harvard Technical Services, but the greatest costs come from the labor required to install them. Since it takes five technicians three weeks to set up the equipment, it is too inconvenient to use for anything other than Commencement, he says...
...Noriega was to ditch new President Manuel Solis Palma after the formation of a "national reconciliation" government, another henchman, Colonel Marcos Justines, would continue to head the PDF. Most important, the drug charges would be dropped -- a proposition that drove even the relentlessly loyal Bush to his first public break with a Reagan policy. In the end, Noriega rejected the entire deal, and the U.S. was left to issue vague threats of future action. The general, says anti-Noriega Juan Sosa, Panama's Ambassador to Washington, "was never serious about negotiating...
...course, it probably doesn't matter. "To have fun, we have to break the law," says Atlanta's Don Hillsman. "Skaters don't like rules." What they do like, when something like the Fallbrook ramp isn't right handy, is swimming pools: big, high-sided, kidney-shape swimming pools -- drained, naturally, to allow for the most radical coasting up and down the sloping concrete. Skaters aren't much on giving out awards, but there is one sure way to reckon the most bio (for bionic, meaning best) skater in the neighborhood: count the trespassing tickets received for skating empty pools...
...amuse yourself with the mythology. Once, history tells us, entire societies were organized around warrior cults. The leaders were austere fellows like John Rambo, who kept to themselves, refusing to acknowledge pain or break training. They must have indulged in such mundane activities as sleep, sex and food, but never in front of the peasants...
Despite all this, smoking can be conquered. Although ex-heroin users have reported that tobacco's grip was harder to break than their illicit drug habit, 43 million Americans have managed to quit smoking, mostly succeeding on their own. Increasingly, though, the one-third of all Americans who still smoke are seeking help in antismoking programs, which generally stress that the tobacco habit is a treatable addiction. The best stop-smoking programs, says Thomas Kottke, a senior consultant at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., combine several approaches with plenty of long-term support for the struggling nonsmoker...