Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schultz was granted a yellow card for the play, the most highly controversial of the afternoon's calls...
...spent last weekend at Penn for a parliamentary debate tournament. In order to be admitted to the tightly-sealed Penn Quadrangle, where I was to sleep, I had to show an official Penn housing pass, a driver's licence and be escorted by a card-carrying Penn student. The dormitory entrance resembled nothing so much as Checkpoint Charlie. It's enough to make you appreciate a campus where a cry of "Hold the door, please!" is sufficient to gain entry to a residence...
When he first arrived a little more than four years ago, Michael refused to bathe, disappeared from school for weeks at a time and filched money with Mazzafro's cash-machine card. "I was used to people taking me, then leaving me," the boy recalls. "I guess I was testing Dad all the time to see what he would...
...possible for a non-Communist to be a factory manager in China, but most managers are still card-carrying party members. Even so, there is always a party secretary to enforce Communist discipline. Before Deng's reforms, there was no question that the Communist secretary dominated, even if he was functionally illiterate in basic business precepts. Since 1984, though, Beijing has directed that party secretaries leave operations to the factories' designated managers -- a direct slap at Leninist ideology, which holds that since the party is the only body capable of enforcing the will of the workers, factories must be under...
...hundreds of angles at which the shallow facets of the picture impinge on one another seems both provisional and immutable. But this -- let alone the far more abstracted paintings of late 1911, in which the thinnest of clues to the identity of objects (a pipestem, a playing card) swims in a vaporous gray- brown flux inflected by lines that break before they can become architectural -- is a kind of visual cohesion that has very little to do with how we actually deal with objects in space...