Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ntshanga was picked up for trespassing in Matthews Hall at about 6 a.m. on December 29, 1992, as he worked in the Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) linen room while listening to a portable compact disc player...
...carmakers profess few worries. "In America gasoline prices are so cheap they're virtually irrelevant," says a Mercedes official. "And in Europe the high cost of gasoline doesn't play a role with those who can afford these vehicles." (In Japan, though, Toyota three weeks ago unveiled a compact-size four-wheel-drive vehicle called the RAV4 that gets about 30 m.p.g. and has a sticker price of about...
...really dies only for oneself." The author of this journal entry was 46 and world famous when he was killed in a car crash south of Paris on Jan. 4, 1960. Within this short life, Albert Camus had won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature and produced a compact body of novels (The Stranger, The Plague), plays (Caligula) and philosophical essays (The Myth of Sisyphus) that both defined and helped create a 20th century temperament: We are by ourselves in an absurd universe, compelled to act but bereft of any reasonable grounds for doing so. Camus seemed to embody...
...jilted lover, he blows swirling, gathering clouds of sound. Then, suddenly piercing them with a barrage of sharp notes, he dashes off a few steeply ascending riffs, bending his notes until they cry and yowl. Throughout the album, on solo after solo (Strange Fruit, In My Solitude), Blanchard's compact, mournful-sounding melodies evoke the desperation and broken dreams that tortured Holiday, who died at 44 in 1959 of drugs and drink...
...addition to Brown and Dartmouth, the otherNew England institutions which will participate inthe compact are: the Universities of Connecticut,Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont,Northeastern University and the University ofMassachusetts at Amherst