Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four glass-walled racquetball courts, it offers a gym, indoor running track, a weight room and marbled showers and whirlpool. Pickens works out daily when he is in Amarillo, and his name is usually at the top of the center's racquetball tournament ladder. His prowess is on sculptured display outside the courts in the form of a life-size bronze statue that portrays a crouching Pickens about to smash an unreturnable backhand...
Though in the closing moments Princeton put on a display from the foul line that's accounted for its 13 losses, it had forged a big enough cushion to offset its charity stripe inacurracy...
...Carter, 44, keeps this question twirling throughout Nights at the Circus, her eighth novel. Answers dangle out of reach. But Carter's brand of fanciful and * sometimes kinky feminism, already heralded in her native England and gaining admirers in the U.S., has never been more thoroughly or entertainingly on display...
...library of the future are already in place. Any branch equipped with a terminal can retrieve the full text of scores of newspapers, magazines and professional journals through data-base services like Lockheed's Dialog and Mead's NEXIS and LEXIS systems. LEXIS, for example, allows a subscriber to display on the computer screen the text of every federal court decision handed down in the past 30 years. The services are a godsend to researchers who regularly search through large numbers of documents for a few key words or phrases. A student doing a paper on juvenile delinquency, for example...
...study was conducted by an NAS panel chaired by former Cornell University President Dale Corson. The authors expressed the hope that their recommendations would make it possible to "establish within the government an appropriate group to develop mechanisms and guidelines in the cooperative spirit that the report itself display...