Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake you. We're just trying to make your flight as safe as possible. If the plane rips in half because the Machinists don't care about quality, passengers who can swim should come to the slide in the front of the airplane. Remaining travellers should read the safety card in the seatback in front of you, conveniently printed in Hieroglyphics and Sanskrit. You should then take a long, deep breath...
...plane, speak in soothing tones to passengers and tell them that they will soon be "set free." Then go to the terrorists and convince them that it makes a greater political statement to execute passengers before the crew. Add that it would be most effective if the victims are card-carrying union members...
...decided to travel all around the Soviet Union without a kopek in my pocket, just to see it. It was in 1952. I traveled and observed during the three summer months. To have a checkbook while traveling is one thing. It is quite another to own only a student card identifying me as a student of the Urals Polytechnical Institute. This taught me a lot, for instance, when I traveled on the roof of a railroad car without a ticket, when I spent the night in sheds with poor and homeless people. That is how I traveled, although it seems...
...years: a pediatrician who is handsome, earnest, dedicated, kind, politically correct from a left-wing perspective and irreversibly gay, and a heterosexual who is grasping, impatient, domineering, shallow, as undependable as quicksilver and, for Heidi, sexually irresistible. This is the there-are-no-men lament reduced to a greeting card. The saving grace is Joan Allen in the title role. Winner of a Tony Award last year in Burn This, Allen becomes a strong contender to repeat with a performance that displays much the same virtues: an inviting vulnerability, an approach to romance simultaneously fragile and fearless...
Minority organizations are multipurpose associations. Hsia notes that in the last election, one pair of candidates for the co-presidency suggested forming a sports team and holding card-game nights. Hsia fails to point out that these suggestions were one part of a comprehensive platform including strengthening political voice, increasing cultural activities, and aiding in the International Relations Council's Model United Nations Conferences. Additionally, the program emphasis of one particular leadership group varies over time, and it is unfair to assume that one type of activity represents the entire purpose of the organization...