Word: english
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...English Department last week voted overwhelmingly not to tenure Associate Professor of English Joseph A. Boone, the junior professor said yesterday...
...expert on the 19th-century and 20th-century novel who uses feminist methodology, Boone said English Department head Robert J. Kiely informed him last Wednesday that the department had not backed...
...spite of their confident predictions, they were unable to gain significantly in the other provinces. The National Party turned back the opposition's all-out attempt to take over the Pretoria city council, won an absolute majority in Johannesburg for the first time and seized control of Pietermaritzburg, the English-speaking capital of Natal, from a coalition of liberals...
...crew of Chinese technicians came to install the equipment, but severe problems arose in combining the different elements, which had not been preassembled before shipment as the contract specified. Special tools had to be sent from China. The English translation of the instructions supplied by the manufacturer was often puzzling. A sample sentence: "Starting direction signal is sent out in electric part, enabling main servomotor open, increasing speed of generating unit and reach to steady speed under no load under the function of auto adjusting speed." Deciphering such instructions and reconciling the various pieces of equipment caused a delay...
...drums and bass lines are exactly the same as those in Jamaica," says UB40 vocalist-trumpeter Astro. "But our melody lines are different. They're influenced by English pop and Motown." Adds Campbell, who also provides vocals: "From the time we were kids together, we all only really listened to reggae. I hardly listened to anything else, apart from Motown, Stax, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding -- and Jackie Wilson. He was my favorite." All the members of UB40 have known one another since their shared childhoods in Balsall Heath, a predominantly black neighborhood near the center of Birmingham...