Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brief respite. Within 15 minutes, as the crowd shouted, "Shame, shame," guards had reshackled the prisoners and led them back to their cells. The government of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe was detaining the officers without charges under Zimbabwe's broad Law and Order Maintenance Act, announced Minister of Home Affairs Herbert Ushewokunze, because their release would "be a danger to public safety and order...
Nevertheless, there is some coordination--at Williams and elsewhere--among supporters of anti-apartheid actions. While advocates of divestiture at Harvard fasted last month, several students at Williams also staged brief "sympathy fasts." Students at Columbia University also staged a candlelight vigil in support of the Harvard hunger strikers at the time. Columbia's Board of Trustees is currently considering the recommendation of the Columbia Faculty Senate that the university divest from all companies conducting business in South Africa...
...enough that Ronald Reagan chose to use an ill-conceived bit of humor to make amends to a professional businesswomen's group. But to commit two grammatical errors in one brief remark may bring him a flood of mail from the nation's English teachers. He should have said, "If it weren't for women, we men .. ." It would appear that his grammar is as lacking as his ability to know his audience...
...tissue from her breast. Logan snapped a plastic name band on her wrist, took her seat on a soft, brown leather sofa and began thumbing through a magazine. Hers was not going to be a long stay: a quick (55 minute) visit to the lemon-yellow operating suite, a brief rest in an equally cheerful recovery room, and then on her feet and out the door by 1:30 p.m. "This is much easier than going to a hospital," says Logan, a registered nurse. "You're in and out in a couple of hours. It's more like...
...imitate, Designer Calvin Klein has made a new raid: women's underwear boldly based on men's models. Women's Wear Daily is declaring it a hit. The collection, predicts the paper, will be "the hottest look in women's lingerie since the bikini brief...