Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard is not the only place where sports have often been used to dismiss the serious concerns of college students. At Berkeley, in 1964, when a large number of students protested what they felt were arbitrary and unfair administrative decisions, a football pep rally threatened to become political counter-demonstration...
...tamper-resistant "caplet" form. Whether SmithKline will also abandon capsules was not clear. Unlike Tylenol, the SmithKline products are "time-release" medicines, which break down slowly and work best in capsule form. Besides, Contac accounts for some $50 million in SmithKline's sales, half of its over-the-counter drug business. Despite the drug's wide popularity, it could conceivably fall victim to a single unbalanced terrorist...
...recent months, dozens of Nicaraguans have been summoned to Casa 50, the interrogation center run by DGSE. In November, for instance, police rounded up several Nicaraguans who worked in various foreign embassies. The detainees later said they had been accused of collaborating with the counter revolution and were grilled for up to 13 hours. None were beaten. Before they were released, a number were encouraged to work for the DGSE. Some subsequently quit their jobs...
...Libya is far from unprotected. Its air force includes some 480 Soviet and aging French-built aircraft. More ominously, a Kresta-class Soviet cruiser is anchored in Libyan waters. Seven other Soviet warships are nearby in the Mediterranean. If Gaddafi should rise to the bait and try forcibly to counter any U.S. movement across his line in the gulf, a prime U.S. retaliatory target might be the SA-5 antiaircraft sites that recently became operational at an airfield south of the Libyan city of Surt. One complication in hitting the sites: an attack could result in casualties among Soviet technicians...
...Lyne had intended to produce a damning critique of contemporary culture, then he has fashioned an existential horror story of Sartrean proportions. The film reflects how Lyne and much of contemporary society have come to view human relationships--they are merely another item at the checkout counter...