Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only four months old at the time, but I'm told that I watched the event as well, comfortably ensconced in the laps of one or the other of the friends and relatives who came over to watch, blissfully unaware of what was taking place...
...candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) in the race for governor. Once officially confirmed this week, Ruffo's victory will mark the first time in the 60-year history of the P.R.I. that the party has conceded defeat in such an election. "It is a decisive event," says political analyst Jorge Castaneda, "the first that will have an authentic historic significance in this administration...
...British government could grant to several million people the right to come and live in Britain." Instead, while planning to admit perhaps 100,000 Hong Kong Chinese, London offered to enlist the U.S., Canada and Australia in a last- resort "lifeboat" plan to absorb others in the event of a mass exodus. In the meantime, Britain would hasten the implementation of self-rule and press Beijing for fresh assurances that Chinese troops would stay out of Hong Kong. The colony's Chinese were not appeased. Storming out of the hall where the Foreign Secretary delivered his speech, eight prominent local...
...tamperproof box: if a KGB spy tried to open it and change the number, he would destroy certain indicators inside the device. Having destroyed them, he would not be able to examine them in order to duplicate and replace them. Sources say the CIA had also installed an "event recorder" in its area that recorded the time when the main CIA alarm went off. Finally, there were covert "traps" on both the CIA and State Department communications equipment designed to indicate any tampering...
Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, the College's assistant dean for minority affairs, last spring organized Harvard's first-ever racial sensitivity week, an event she plans to make a yearly tradition...