Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fire trucks rapidly extinguished the 6:10 p.m. blaze in the fourth floor suite of the dorm's B-entry. The flames in Canady B-44--which could be seen from the dorm's courtyard--came from a couch apparently ignited by fallen lamp or a faulty electrical circuit...
Artistically and sociologically, [Latin music] is a ghetto. Latin music plays its own concert circuit, with its own record labels, radio stations and [usually Spanish language] fan magazines...Success is purchased at the price of a steady pattern of exploitation and corruption that is less obvious now in the upper reaches of the mainstream pop-music business. And whatever success a Latin performer does achieve is source by an awareness of the greater success available on just the other side of the street, and by the strictures that tradition and subcultural rigidity place on a creative composer...
...same tri-meet the Crimson barely eked out second place, beating the Bruins by only 1 1/2 and losing to the Big Green by 12. This season, though, the Harvard outdoor track team has come into its own. The Crimson proved to be the class of the indoor circuit after clinching the heptagonal championship, and it seems after Saturday's meet that the thinclads are continuing, where they left off this winter...
...Administration seemed to be giving its El Salvador policy statements a more temperate emphasis. When he appeared before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee last week, Secretary Shultz was calm and steady while under fire from both Republicans and Democrats. He insisted that "we will not support negotiations that short-circuit the democratic process and carve up power behind the people's backs...
...less radical members of the Marxist-led rebel movement that is trying to overthrow the regime. But the U.S. would not, Shultz stressed, offer the guerrillas a share of power that they had not won at the ballot box. Said he: "We will not support negotiations that short-circuit the democratic process and carve up power behind people's back...