Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three lies are not enough, you could check out University Hall, the building directly behind the statue. University Hall might be called "The Building of the Many Obscurities." From this building come statements from Deans about such shrouded mysteries as "The Core" and "The Hot Break-fast Plan" and "The Housing Lottery." Why are these related? Because no one, including the Deans whose names are attached to the plants, knows the slightest bit about how the plans will work or how they will affect students...
While the active anti-apartheid groups are unanimous in their support of divestiture, the question of how fast the University should go in releasing its holdings in firms operating in South Africa remains, to some degree, a divisive issue. Some observers categorize the groups -- and the individuals within each group -- on a moderate-to-radical scale; this, however, is something of a misrepresentation, as the students advocating a more moderate approach are often no less radical than the other protesters in their political ideals but simply take a more pragmatic stand...
...night last week, for example, the audience put them in Moscow, ordered them to begin the scene with a meaningless sentence, "He who hesitates laughs last," and while they were at it work in a reference to Christina Onassis. There was a second's hesitation while two very fast computers scanned the possibilities, and Monty started muttering, "He who hesitates laughs last," in a thick Russian accent. "No, no," Suzanne, as Christina Onassis, gently explained, he had it wrong-but never mind: "I can buy you the best course Berlitz has to offer." "Have we been to Berlitz?" Monty...
...Such fast action was unheard of 40 years ago when the modern paperback business was born. Potboiler westerns, mysteries and a few novels were sold mainly in drugstores and on newsstands. The 1950s saw the emergence of "trade" or "quality" paperbacks. They were the inexpensive, soft-covered reprints of classics, serious novels and texts that heralded the so-called paperback revolution. Readership climbed steadily with the growth of the college-educated population. Last year's industry figures indicate that more than 530 million paperbacks were sold, between 60% and 80% bought by women mainly...
...gold at the end of every whiplash." Now the old litigious spirit has become almost a reflex. Malpractice suits against doctors are epidemic. The volume of damage suits, doubling in some jurisdictions in the past ten to 15 years, has been increasing five times as fast as the population in bellwether California...