Word: fern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...descend in swarms and leave nothing behind but Dumpsters filled with discarded linoleum." Some signs of imminent Yupification: forced relocation of candy stores and laundromats, the proliferation of gourmet-food stores and the appearance of disoriented bums trying to figure out why their favorite bar now has an asparagus fern in the window. Yuppies do not reside in houses or apartments but in "living spaces," often in run-down neighborhoods from which their immigrant grandparents fled. "Yuppies will live anywhere," says the Handbook, "as long as the floors are genuine parquet and there's another Yuppie on the block...
SENTENCED. Juan María Fernández y Krohn, 33, Spanish priest of an archtraditionahst Roman Catholic faction who last May attempted to kill Pope John Paul II with a bayonet at Portugal's Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima; to seven years and one month in prison; in Vila Nova de Ourém, Portugal. The term includes seven months for contempt of court for disrupting his trial. At his sentencing he shouted, "Puppets! Assassins! Communists!" at his judges...
...easily in an environment of mutual ignorance. To avoid this we must be willing to talk and listen to each other as students and as peers. Let this be our priority now and in the future. Jeffrey R. Mendeinohn '84 Jordan Millstein '85 Bon Movans '85 Kathy Simon '85 Fern Reins '85 H-R Hillel Steering Committee
...Fern Flaman, whose Northeastern squad broke Yale's five-game winning streak last Tuesday, said of the Elis, "I've never seen so many big players: they look almost like a professional team." And Taylor admits to putting brawn to good use: "I think we have some good decent size. We're going to try to skate with Harvard as much as possible, though we'll take the body where that's appropriate and skate for the openings when...
...read the sentence three or four times, out still couldn't quite figure it out. "He's an undergraduate, either male or female, "begins Fern E. Reiss's p.3 story about anxiety and depression, appearing in Friday's Crimson. Is she trying to tell us that...