Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservativces and radical liberals get to stay indefinitely when we have to go to the Quad? I mean we heard from some official sources who know someone at who knows someone who knows Dean Epps' secretary and he says that all the radical groups are Quadlings in search of closer housing. This makes sense, our source says: the "Ivory Tower" alone sleeps eight. The thing is guys, do you have room for 400? "OUR TOWN" is thus clearly deficient on that standard. And guys what about the CRR, I mean they need some representation. They are oppressed...
...peers. Openess of sources is thus indispensable for attainment of the primary purpose of the university, the discovery and communication of truths about important matters. As Professor Safran's Saudia Arabia is based entirely on unclassified materals, it poses no problem in regard to the scholarly effort to get closer to the truth about this important matter. The great interest in the issue of "openess" over sources of funding and relative neglect of the question of openess of sources reflects an erosion of the belief that scholars and scholarship, regardless of their sources of funding and their different political perspectives...
...enhanced by stereo, but what is the point of wall-to-wall sound for more routine programming like sitcoms? "In mono broadcasts the laugh track is flat," says NBC Senior Vice President Warren Littlefield, "but in stereo it sounds more like a live audience. The audience at home comes closer to the live experience." Others see a big potential for stereo sports. "Imagine getting the Indianapolis 500 in stereo," says Dennis Lewin, senior vice president for sports production at ABC. "You'd have the feeling of the sound as the cars came around the corner...
...Berlin, a shattered discotheque; in Rome and Vienna, airline terminals strewn with bodies. So far, the U.S. has been spared the horror of a major terrorist attack. But as hostility intensifies between the U.S. and Libya, the shadow war could come closer to home. Security experts warn that extremists could find easy pickings in American cities. "We are absolutely unprepared here in the U.S.," says Dr. Robert Kupperman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former National Security Council staffer. "Everywhere in the country, government facilities, commercial installations and civilian networks make...
While some segments of the middle class chafe under their restrictions, the kingdom's religious leaders constantly call for closer adherence to puritanical Islamic rules. Many of their strictures are directed at women. One recent decree banned them from riding alone in taxis or hotel limousines. In Riyadh and Jidda, black-robed women must board buses through the back door and sit separately from men. In some parts of the kingdom, a husband can divorce a wife simply by repeating "I divorce thee" three times...