Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week in a paneled committee room of the House of Lords. Ranged around a horseshoe table, the lords listened intently as, one by one, bewigged barristers rose to argue the fine points of one of the oddest cases in British legal history-the sort of legal conundrum that could exist only in a country that still has titles and a nobility. The two opposing claimants in the case sat stone-faced in the chamber, refusing to meet each other: Geoffrey Denis Erskine Russell, 54, a prosperous London theater producer, and John Hugo Trenchard Russell, 25, an accountant...
Outside observers, nurtured on Soviet propaganda that UNITA did not exist and that its head, Jonas Savimbi, was actually selling fish in a Zambian market, were stunned at the levels of relative popularity for the three movements--at such great variance to the propaganda campaign of the more substantially foreign-backed parties. Inside Angola however, that reality could be more readily comprehended. Both MPLA and FNLA had launched their guerrilla struggle in the early 1960's against the Portuguese from military bases in neighboring countries, MPLA in Zambia, FNLA in Zaire. The tactic of occasional forays across the border into...
...Faculty members and administrators to a panel pretentiously called the "University Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society." The committee's 1945 report greatly influenced the course of college education in the United States, outlining proposals for general education courses and requirements as they exist at Harvard and many other colleges today. The report's basic premise holds that there is a core of knowledge essential to a citizen in a free society and that it is the function of general education to provide that core...
...spread. Certainly any thing that greases the path of knowledge is a net gain for society. Besides, with more than 2 million machines in use, it is a little late to stop the revolution. Says Chandler B. Grannis, editor-at-large of Publisher's Weekly: "Copying machines exist. They will be used, legally and ethically...
...government was systematically corroding and stifling our artistic life," Rostropovich said last year. "They wanted to prove that we did not exist. We were treated like lepers. We lost our identity. It was like looking into a mirror and not finding your reflection. In Russia," he said with characteristically vivid imagery, "if one blade of grass grows higher than another, they send in bulldozers to trim it down...