Word: carded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mailbox. Our lives here at Harvard can be very complex. That is undeniable. Yet compared to most of the world's people, we lead easy existences, and we are generally pretty complacent about doing so. An interruption of our habitual activities by an ultimately harmless "shooting" or a draft card can shock us into at least a temporary awareness of our complacency...
Americans have grown inured to crass commercialism taken to excess, with corporate sponsorship profaning everything from bowl games to the Bill of Rights. But somehow Thanksgiving has resisted the blandishments of an age of avarice. How the greeting-card sharpies and the flower-power florists must lament a national holiday in which they are doomed to play such a minor role. For if one cares to send the very best, one flies home for Thanksgiving. Even the TV networks have never figured out a way to transform Thanksgiving into a prime-time pageant, which is why the Macy's Parade...
COCA, however, failed to identify itself as the distributor of the material as required by rules in the Handbook for Students, printing only the word "facsimile" in small type at the card's bottom...
...relationship with the P.R.C. President Bush will go head-to-head with Gorbachev in the Mediterranean on Dec. 2. Gorbachev is not a closet democrat, a philanthropist or a fool. His handshake will be warm, but based on his past record we can assume that he will have a card or two up his sleeve. We should never treat China as a card. But it would not serve our interests if Gorbachev were able to do so. Today the Chinese are talking to the Russians, and we are talking to the Russians. But we don't talk to each other...
...starchy GOP lineup doesn't fully explain the Democratic victories. The Democratic "trump card" was clearly the abortion-rights issue. During the campaign, which in some cases began to resemble a plebiscite on abortion rights. several Republicans backpedaled frantically from hardline anti-abortion stances. They either reversed their positions, as did Giuliani and New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Jim Courter, or minimized the issue, as did President Bush last Tuesday...