Word: divisionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Punctuation, then, is a civic prop, a pillar that holds society upright. (A run-on sentence, its phrases piling up without division, is as unsightly as a sink piled high with dirty dishes.) Small wonder, then, that punctuation was one of the first proprieties of the Victorian age, the age...
Jay L. Taft, director of administration for the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Allied Institutions Department, says that professors notify the department of their needs when they enter the division. He says that no professor has had to move labs since he has been in the department.
On boats, temperature gauges screwed into the hull guide anglers to cool underground springs in ponds and lakes where fish like to congregate on hot summer days. Similarly, pH meters dragged at various depths help locate acidity "clines," or layers, where fish are apt to feed. Lake Systems Division's...
Meanwhile, cable networks are bidding aggressively against their broadcast rivals for programming. Syndicated reruns of such current network hits as Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey and Murder, She Wrote have been sold to cable rather than broadcast stations, as would have been the case five or ten years ago. Cable has...
"I'm willing to give it a try," CCA Councillor David E. Sullivan said yesterday, but he said the Council was not likely to agree on a comprehensive plan in light of the division which has led to the defeat of petitions for rezoning in smaller areas, despite demonstrations of...