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...gravely serious man in glasses and a dark suit moves and speaks like the polished trial lawyer he once was. In the dank humidity of an auditorium in the Massachusetts State House, he makes his case insistently, weaving numbers and exposition into a seamless argument. In the future, he says, 60% of the U.S. Navy's shipyard work will involve nuclear-powered vessels. More than half the ships in for repair will be submarines; most of those will be Los Angeles- class attack submarines. "The most experienced shipyard in servicing Los Angeles subs," he declaims, "is the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready, Aim, Shut Down | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

...Crimson finished last season with a distressing 4-9 record overall, 1-5 Ivy, the only Ancient Eight team it beat was one accustomed to smelling the dark, dank waters of the cellar--Dartmouth...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: M. Lax Season Opener Gets Postponed...Again | 3/17/1993 | See Source »

...Kronauer Space--a cramped, dingy, dark and dank recess somewhere off the vibrant labyrinth of the Adams House tunnels--provides the ideal stage for Jean Genet's Deathwatch, a play set during the 1940's in a cell-block of an unspecified French prison. Genet's drama percolates with modernist tensions of alienation, violence, passion and, of course, nihilism. These tensions play themselves out within the network of complicated relationships which inevitably arise when you cram three male convicts into a dark cell in the basement of Adams House...

Author: By William TATE Dougherty, | Title: Deathwatch Offers Sexy Psychological Drama | 3/4/1993 | See Source »

Government documents and microforms currently occupy a dank, cramped space in Lamont's sub-sub-basement. Twenty-five years ago, gov does were temporarily placed in this library underworld. Misplaced University priorities left it there for more than a decade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Room for Growth | 2/23/1993 | See Source »

...Bush's battle group was winging on its thunderous way, Mort Engelberg, the Hollywood producer turned bus-caravan impresario for the Clinton-Gore campaign, was in a dank Cleveland hotel mapping yet another ground-level incursion down the back ways of this civilization through Ohio and around Lake Erie to Buffalo. The earlier buscades along the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys were surprisingly successful strikes, finding people in neighborhoods where they lived, not at airports or pre-packaged arenas. Reporters from local television stations could hitch a bus ride for a hundred bucks or so a day, compared with more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Hail to the Prisoner | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

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