Word: clusterers
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Many of the New Agers brought their crystals to expose to the rising sun so the gems would be "charged" with its energy. Joyce Rennolds, who wore a cluster around her neck, explained, "These do for the body what microchips do for the computer." Other satisfied participants had warm memories. Said Jackie Murray, who climbed Harvey Peak in South Dakota with her husband and two children: "I hope that is the tranquillity we feel when we die. I do believe something universally happened this weekend...
...waters outside the Persian Gulf resembled a floating parking lot. Scores of empty supertankers, flying the flags of Panama, Japan, Pakistan and many other countries, lay at anchor last week in the Gulf of Oman, as did half a dozen U.S. warships. A menacing cluster of mines had brought the world's busiest oil traffic to a sudden and embarrassing halt. One after another, the explosives bobbed into sight. By week's end at least five had been spotted, and every tiny fishing boat that sailed by was carefully watched in case it tried to plant more of the dangerous...
...cemetery, near the graves of many of the 180 people who had been killed in the bloody Kwangju riots in 1980. Although Lee's mother and sister struggled hysterically with student marshals, the youths eventually prevailed. The lone victim from this year's street struggles was buried among the cluster of graves that commemorate a tragic struggle of the past...
...post-Watergate reform legislation has been undermined by unintended consequences. Campaign-spending laws spawned a proliferation of political-action committees. Strictures against lobbying by former Government officials have failed to halt revolving-door Reaganism. The very act of drawing statutory limits almost seems to guarantee that most behavior will cluster just this side of legality. As Education Secretary William Bennett puts it, "What I worry about is a legislator who says we have an ethics crisis, let's do something about...
...students and administrators say that after freshman year students are free to switch clusters, and often, if they receive low lottery numbers or if their cluster is particularly popular, they cannot get a room in the same cluster and have to move...