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...never made those figures public because we don't want to cement in anyone's mind that he or she will be living in an unpopular House," Dingman said...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Most Freshmen Get Top House Choice | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

...fundamental thrust of U.S. foreign policy for the last ten years has been to cement an anti-Soviet alliance with China and Japan. The U.S. sees China as an ace in its hand against the Soviet Union and China's invasion of Vietnam is the first military expression of this diplomacy...

Author: By Alison Schorr, | Title: The Peking-U.S. Collusion in Vietnam | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

...China Syndrome is not a disaster film in the style of The Towering Inferno nor Earthquake--it doesn't even rely on ritual seduction scenes to cement the plot. Lemmon and Fonda portray characters who are average people, holding perhaps better-than-average jobs, who act heroically when the circumstances demand it. Fonda is very believable as a success-oriented member of the "Me Generation," at first frustrated far more by her boss's fluffy conception of her than by his cover-up of her nuclear accident story. "I've got a pretty good job, and I fully intend...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Countdown To Meltdown... | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...talent of next year's freshman class is critical, but may unfortunately cement the realization that Harvard lost more than a freshman hockey coach when Tim Taylor left for Yale three years...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: HARVARD HOCKEY: What Was (Is) the Story? | 3/8/1979 | See Source »

...uses a heavy blue ink that has many of the same properties as rub ber cement (refills are available in black and red). About 100 times thicker than honey, it is contained in a cartridge in the pen's barrel, which is pressured with a charge of nitrogen gas; the gas forces the ink onto the pen's ballpoint when it is pressed against a surface. In effect, an antigravity pen, it can be used in any position. The writing can be rubbed out with an ordinary eraser up to several days later; thereafter the ink fully hardens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Erasable You | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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