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...student, Margaret M. Cimino '87, also made an important step towards recovery yesterday when she moved her left arm and right elbow for the first time since the accident, said the spokesman, Kelly Anthony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Injured Freshman Transferred To a Hospital Closer Home | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

...here 24 hours a day, directing the flow of police around the University. The equipment in the room has changed little since the room was built in 1979-with one exception: a wheeled trundle, installed this summer, now brings a computer terminal within inches of the clerk's elbow...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Fighting Crime in the Computer Age | 12/3/1983 | See Source »

Sometimes she stood the way poor people stand, elbow bent, one hand placed on one irregular hip, and the face gazing past the immediate farmyard, as if to say "There is life beyond this paltry place--I have my eyes...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Book of the Bleak | 11/4/1983 | See Source »

...sense the coalition is an inherent contradiction for these groups. Special interests abandon conventional party politics when they feel the political consensus does not respond to their needs. Interests become movements because compromise isn't enough: their proponents want to elbow their issues onto the national agenda. Taking the cue from civil rights, they establish their own organizations, constituencies and power bases...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Dusting Off the Dream | 9/20/1983 | See Source »

...took care of their own. At midnight, with beer fairly boiling on the hot sidewalks, you'd see a sarge walking a sloppy corporal back to the ship, the sarge's hand cupping the drunk's elbow to steady him but not to make too much of a spectacle of it. The sight was almost tender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Liberty but All Keyed Up | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

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