Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many members of the Boston chapter play "Dungeons and Dragons," a fantasy game in which "dungeon masters control your fate using tables of probability and predetermined alternatives," Pugliese said...
...BEEN MORE THAN 130 years since Cornelius Vanderbilt purchased exclusive right of way across the narrow strip of land that separates Atlantic and Pacific in Nicaragua. It has been 46 years since General Anastasio Somoza Garcia took control of the Nicaraguan National Guard from the United States Marines and promptly ordered the murder of nationalist hero Augusto Sandino. And it has been several months now since the front pages of America's newspapers sported gory tales of the thousands of civilian deaths that the same National Guard caused in the wake of the massive but unsuccessful popular uprising that racked...
Among his plans: free and compulsory education for all Egyptians up to high school age, extensive electrification of rural areas, an end to press censorship, restriction on government control of TV and radio. But such plans depend greatly on the Middle East peace negotiations. In some ways, Sadat trusts Khalil to handle these negotiations more than he trusts himself. Sadat is visionary and mercurial; Khalil is cautious and dispassionate. Sadat relies on Khalil to weigh and analyze every Israeli proposal more carefully than Sadat himself might. As one Egyptian official put it, "Khalil would not rise and fall like...
With B.U. down by two goals, Dartmouth's Dennis Murphy incurred a highsticking penalty at 15:10 of the third. Dartmouth killed off a furious B.U. power play and after that Dartmouth took control. Ric Mellum and Murphy of the Big Green both failed to score on breakaways in the last minute and a half, but the game was in hand as B.U.'s frazzled offensive failed to mount its scoring attack...
Thomson and two other fiction staff members disagreed with Marius over the educational value of fiction writing. She, Cynthia Rich and Steven Erlanger contend fiction writing challenges students who have been screened for competence in expository writing to work on subtle improvements in their prose--control of tone, imagery, concrete detail, and style...