Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard is a mysterious place, full of metaphorical nuts to crack and teeming with challenges for the gaming mind. Our perch atop the chimney of Memorial Church affords us fine view of curious students traversing the Yard, wondering, always wondering: When is a Yard not a Yard? and, Whence Schlesinger Library?, and so on. In the interest of putting churning young minds to rest once and for all, we have taken it upon ourselves to respond to some oft-asked questions about Mother Harvard...
...leaving her apartment in the Northridge Meadows complex in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley and making sure her mother is all right. As Stillman crosses her bedroom, she thinks, this must have been a big one. Nearly everything in the apartment is on the floor. Then she hears a crack, and her dining area seems to list to the left and downward. "I felt a sensation of falling," she reports later. She is falling -- 10 ft. -- and so is her apartment. And the building's entire second and third floors. "But until I actually saw what was on the outside...
...numbers move on a daily basis. Clinton's improved grade for foreign policy rests partly upon a European trip marked by still-to- be-honored pledges by Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons and by Boris Yeltsin to continue reform. A face-off with North Korea or a crack-up in Russia could renew doubts about his capabilities abroad...
Abandoned babies were far less painful to contemplate before the crack and AIDS epidemics, back when they came swaddled in baskets with heartbreaking notes, in the thousands rather than in the tens of thousands. Now they are a shared social nightmare, the blame for which may depend on the political philosophy of the beholder. Conservatives might find it hard to imagine a purer shirking of personal responsibility than the mother who throws her child, at birth, upon the charity of the state; liberals may decry the forces that drive poor, addicted and HIV-positive women into this most wrenching...
Meanwhile, millions of Americans have spent the early 1990s adjusting to constrained times and now feel they can afford to crack open their wallets and % pocketbooks in 1994. Many consumers who still have their jobs see themselves as "survivors" of one of the worst upheavals ever seen in the work force, the TIME economists said. Moreover, "American workers have adapted to the idea that they're not going to have the same job forever," said labor economist Audrey Freedman, who runs a New York City-based management consulting firm. They have learned to accept the inevitable job shifts, Freedman noted...