Word: cladding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clark ordered Griswold Hall locked and secured Thursday--as students were staging a sit-in inside--police took their orders seriously. Very seriously. At one point, a security officer apparently became nervous that three protesters standing in an open doorway might let more in. So the stocky, trench-coat clad officer used his body to block off the door, and began pushing the students out. A shoving match ensued, and one woman law student ended up on the ground...
...memories of Tiananmen Square. A mock barrier, dubbed the Wall of Colonialism, was battered down as demonstrators cheered. It might have been an anti-Soviet prop at an independence rally in Lithuania. Instead, this was in the city of Ponce in southern Puerto Rico, and the 125,000 yellow-clad marchers were not calling for the island's freedom but to join the U.S. as the 51st state...
...practice, it doesn't work that way. The iron-clad protection of tenure is simply not necessary to cultivate diverse opinions. For one thing, universities themselves hold academic freedom sacred and will attempt to protect scholarship from outside interference, as they did during the McCarthy Era. Second, the legal system offers instructors protection against wrongful dismissal. For example, in the case of Ofsevit v. the State University of California and Colleges, the California high court ruled that the First Amendment protects teachers from dismissal for their political beliefs or activities...
...Fashion Jokes. Your interviewer may be clad entirely in skin-tight polyester. Don't say the 1970s are long over. Don't mention that John Travolta sends his regards. Instead, ask where your interviewer bought the suit, and dutifully write the name of the store on a piece of paper. Then go home and burn...
...Jane Fonda struts lycra-clad through home entertainment centers and the word "creamy" becomes an insult, 10 percent butterfat ice cream has joined Spam in the gastronomic archives. But for the true purist, even frozen yogurt tastes too rich...