Word: centering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Council, after a rash of attacks on undergraduates in Harvard Yard and a rape in the Science Center, called for increased security measures campus-wide. As a result, the Yard has been brightened at night with improved lighting, the Science Center has upgraded its security measures, classes in self-defense have been held for students, and whistles have been made available to all students...
...Docklands, where a reborn city with elegant housing and sleek office buildings is rising from what was once a wasteland of derelict wharves and warehouses, the relics of Britain's mighty trading empire of yesteryear. Boats rush commuters up the Thames to the City, London's financial heartland and center of the world's freewheeling foreign-exchange market...
...nation European Space Agency, has completed 33 launches and has $2.1 billion worth of contracts on its order books. On the research front, Western Europe is poised to leapfrog the U.S. in the esoteric but strategically important field of high-energy physics. Funded by 14 European countries, the European Center for Particle Physics in Switzerland has completed construction of the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Last month the $660 million 16-mile supercollider began yielding results that promise to place the new frontier of physics firmly in Western Europe...
...COCKTAIL HOUR. Nancy Marchand's sozzled, sardonic portrayal of a grande dame enriches A.R. Gurney's Wasp family tale at Washington's Kennedy Center...
...GEOGRAPHY OF LUCK. The drifters, gamblers and hustlers in Marlane Meyer's desert panorama mingle the doomed banality of Sam Shepard characters with the quixotic blessings of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. At the Los Angeles Theater Center...