Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lived in Greenough Hall, one of the four freshman dorms not in the Yard. Being off the Yard was a bit inconvenient. We were away from the action, but we were much closer to the dining room, if you call that an advantage. The problem with Greenough wasn't that it was so far away, or even that it wasn't that it was so far away, or even that it wasn't as beautiful as the Yard dorms; it was that the dorm was star--studded with academic hotshots. It had a reputation of being the nerd dorm that...
...underwater construction team whose sixth member had been Robbie Stethem decided to spend the holiday the same way they had spent the past few weeks: together. The intensive training and small size of their unit makes for ready camaraderie, but Stethem's murder had brought them even closer. With their wives, they went on a secluded picnic in Norfolk, Va., not far from the base where all had trained...
...National Union-Patriotic Front six additional seats in the country's 100- member Parliament, bringing the party's total to 63. The tally makes it doubtful that Mugabe will be able to win the unanimous parliamentary backing now needed to impose one-party rule. But it does bring him closer to the 70 parliamentary votes that will be needed under the constitution to switch to a one-party system after...
OBSERVERS OFTEN flippantly slap a socialist label on many third world countries which have state-run economies, do not guarantee Western-style political rights or do not accept the imperialist foreign policy of superpower nations. But, the Zimbabwean political economy today represents something much closer to state capitalism than socialism. In state capitalism the government runs the economy rather than individual firms. The corporate body is larger and more centralized, but it must still accumulate profits at the expense of depressing workers' wages, just as smaller firms...
...important lesson to be learned from the ordeal of Flight 847 is not that the media plays into the hands of hijackers, but rather, that it plays for the public. Before the public summarily condemns journalists, it should take a closer look at its own formative influence. And before the media lightly brushes aside its critics, it would do well to reassess its relationship with society at large...