Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...League institutions, Brown and Dartmouth are part of the endeavor called the Compact for Faculty diversity, the Boston Globe reported Tuesday. But Harvard has withheld its participation...
...extend its name to telephones, pager watches and sunglasses without great success. But Mercedes, whose sales have fallen 11% in the past three years, is eager to reach out to buyers who cannot afford its traditional cars. Already the company has unveiled plans to produce in 1997 the compact four- seat Vision A with a sale price of about...
...self-reproachful lines of the verses with a rebarbative four-note hook that seems to be making fun of the singer's romantic aspirations." "Our eyes first met across a crowded room"--and then the hook, and then "I knew we'd done to very different schools..." The compact "guitar also," when it comes, is a deliberately squeaky, pathos-filled echo of the triumphant 70s lust you'd be likely to find at the end of a Cheap Trick song, the Sugargliders' quiet aplomb here as everywhere on the album, sounds like the product of diminished expectations, sounds resigned...
...same aide who had searched him before. Simply to attend a service at the Nation of Islam Temple No. 7 in New York City, reporter Sharon Epperson was frisked and her pens were examined to see whether they concealed knives. Nation of Islam women also checked her lipstick, compact and wallet. Questions about such basics as the group's size -- estimated at 30,000 to 200,000 members -- and budget are routinely deflected, as are questions about the family life and background of Farrakhan and his aides...
...deserved superstardom in her Boston-based band Helium. The various parts of Autoclave's sound--the instrumental overlaps, the soulfulness, the rapid riff-changing--are now split up among the bands its ex-members have formed: Helium songs are slow and cathartic Slant 6 song are speedy and compact, and Autoclave bassist Nikki Chapman's Rastro! is noisier than either other band. It's fair to say (and it's not a diss on Helium) that Christina Billotte's melodic sense must have been the dominant one in deciding what Autoclave tunes would sound like. The multi-layered Autoclave textures...