Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another reminder: the subway trains do not run between Park St. and the Harvard station on weekdays after 9 p.m. You can catch a bus back home, but these (and the T on weekends) shut down at 12:30 each night...
...preparing India for the 21st century. We have a substantial infrastructure, a large supply of technically trained manpower, a sizable management pool. In the area of technology, we have moved substantially ahead, and now we are ready to move ahead much faster and catch up with the more advanced countries. It requires a change in our attitude, a change in our educational system, a change in our industry so that it becomes more competitive. We must see to it that, without causing unemployment, we can (prepare) the next generation to deal with the new technology. And we have to achieve...
Anyhow, the joint has tone, if you catch my drift...
Ornithologist ROGER TORY PETERSON at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pa.: "Many people go through life as though they are wearing blinders or are sleepwalking. Their eyes are open, yet they may see nothing of their wild associates on this planet. Their ears, attuned to motor cars and traffic, seldom catch the music of nature -- the singing of birds, frogs or crickets -- or the wind. These people are biologically illiterate -- environmentally illiterate -- and yet they may fancy themselves well informed, perhaps sophisticated. They may know business trends or politics, yet haven't the faintest idea of what makes the natural world...
...calms everyone who frets for his young arm, seemingly every person he meets: "From high school on, even before that, I have always kept something warm on my arm late at night. I'm not afraid. I make sure I use my arm on the off days, playing catch, long throws, you know. I feel safe...