Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aggressive nicknames, like Pirates and Tigers, are attached to older franchises. Now that the game is played by college-trained millionaires, the newer teams have been more sedately named after seagoers and spacegoers (Mariners, Astros), birds (Blue Jays), religious figures (Angels, Padres) or a dimly remembered world's fair (Expos...
...professional (although, silly me, during the last absence from the city I forgot to make a zillion dollars, the requisite for settling in today). Less amused, and no doubt less amusing, I no longer suffer everyday brutalities in stride; hence the need for the incantation. Of course, to be fair, any period of adjustment is rough on the nerves. It gets all the more complicated when you find yourself running short on patience and long on temper -- a consequence of having age. And if you don't cut yourself some slack somewhere in this stretch, you may overhear a relative...
...same procedures as the CRR. Explains Dean L. Fred "Solomon" Jewett '57: "The procedures aren't written down anywhere, so how do students know they aren't any good? Besides, I'll decide the procedures as soon as we need them so I'm sure they'll be fair...
...made two appearances before Reagan's domestic-policy council, and last week he again took his sheaves of facts and figures to the White House. $ Reagan was a sympathetic listener. "We all know somebody who's been hit by something like this," the President said. "It's simply not fair that middle- class people can be wiped out financially by an unfortunate health problem." But Bowen's numerous critics were quick to raise questions about whether his program should be compulsory, whether it should include a means test, whether private insurance could not do more...
...fair number of S.M.U.'s 9,019 students seem fed up and worried too. Said Freshman Page Howard, addressing an unprecedented university-wide meeting called last week to debate the athletics issue: "I didn't come here because I wanted the football team to win. I wanted to learn. Now I'm scared when I graduate that people are going to laugh at my degree...