Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...responsible voice for the student community in the affairs of the College. It might play a role in the current review of the tenure system, guaranteeing that student concerns to improve the quality of teaching have proper representation. The council might help propel a review of the Core Curriculum, which many students charge does not meet its stated purpose of teaching the methodologies of the disciplines. But such an expansion would require a fundamental reevaluation of the council, a recharter that would render it an organ of the faculty and administrative community rather than simply a resume-building past-time...
...film to be the best one so far. It is enough that Stone has devised a drama of palpable realism that is also a metaphor for the uncivil war that raged in the U.S. and can flare up anytime in any family. Indeed, at the film's molten core is the tug of wills between two strong men, outsize figures of shameless strutting charisma, for parentage of their platoon and for their new recruit, Chris. Barnes, the staff sergeant, could be Chris' legal father; Elias, the romantic renegade, could be a spiritual father, even after his death. They are like...
...core of the controversy are U.S. controls on so-called dual-use technologies, meaning commercial products that could have defense applications. High on the Pentagon's list are computers, ranging from Cray supercomputers, which could play a role in the Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative, to certain kinds of automated banking machines, which contain information-processing chips that could be useful for Soviet missile- guidance systems...
...problem in the Soviet Union. In an interview published in the Communist Party newspaper Pravda, Internal Affairs Minister Alexander Vlasov said 46,000 Soviet citizens have been diagnosed as drug addicts -- a dramatic figure when compared with official estimates just two years ago that only 2,500 such hard-core users existed. Vlasov also revealed the results of operation "Poppy 86," a narcotics crackdown in which more than 4,000 drug dealers were arrested and some 250,000 acres of wild cannabis plants destroyed. Said Vlasov: "The struggle against drug addiction and crime connected with it has become...
...fiber-optic cable will be able to handle the equivalent of 40,000 simultaneous telephone conversations, more than twice the number of transatlantic phone lines now available on the three operating copper-core cables. Together with a $700 million transpacific fiber-optic cable scheduled to be completed in 1989, the new undersea phone lines should provide better connections and lower prices for millions of U.S. consumers and businesses who regularly reach out and touch someone across an ocean...