Word: byron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVERGREEN. On opening day in September 1971, the library stood only half built, its books stored in a brewery. "We didn't have any buildings or dorms," recalls Physics Teacher Byron Youtz. Some classes met in local churches, and one convened on a lakeshore. Faculty members had no promise of tenure, and the curriculum consisted--as it still does--of Socratic seminars, Great Books courses and the like. Instead of grades, students got written evaluations, and still do. The original student body of 1,000 included a fair number of hippie types, to the dismay of the down-home state...
...glass of camel's milk for breakfast, a regimen he has kept since he was a boy. He says he likes Western classical music, especially Beethoven, and that his favorite book is Uncle Tom's Cabin. With a kind of adolescent romanticism, he thinks of himself as a Bedouin Byron. "I am a poet," he told a German interviewer. "From time to time, I weep, but only when I am alone...
...enough to allow the suit. In recent years a few federal courts began to balk at the more ingenious applications. But in a 5-to-4 decision last July, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected some of the methods that lower courts had tried for putting brakes on RICO. Justice Byron White concluded for the majority that while Congress may not have expected legitimate businesses to be targeted so easily by RICO, "this defect--if defect it is--is inherent in the statute as written, and its correction must lie with Congress...
...first doubles, Engle and Co-Captain Larry Scott had an impressive win. They defeated Shelby Cannon and Byron Talbot, who form the 11th ranked doubles team in the nation, in straight sets...
Priced at $129, the Half Pint is selling well to all kinds of customers who are short on kitchen space, from college students living in dormitories to camping enthusiasts who like to have hot meals in their recreational vehicles. "We were completely sold out after Christmas," says Byron Wilson, a microwave-oven sales specialist for the Bamberger's department store in Paramus, N.J. "We've even had to take reservations for future shipments." Since the small oven was introduced in the U.S. seven months ago, Sharp has sold about 250,000 Half Pints, compared with only...