Word: files
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, my biggest problem over the remainder of the performance was trying not to laugh, for the script was clever and the actors skilled. I managed somehow, and had my reward after the show. As I stood smoking a cigarette and watching the people file out, a friend from the audience came up and shook my hand. "You know," he said, "I've seen you do good work in other shows, but you were absolutely dead on stage tonight...
...Moulin, a leader of the Resistance who died under the hands of Barbie, was betrayed by his own comrades? In a different domain and on another level, there is some concern that the trial will conveniently and simplistically group the various victims together -- dump them all into the same file: Jews and Resistance fighters, Jews and anti-Nazis, Jews and political prisoners. In other words, that the specific, the unique, even ontological aspect of the Jewish tragedy will be lost...
During freshman year, you think you know where you want to live. You list that house, get assigned to that house, but everything isn't as expected. So, you file an application to transfer. While most people may think that the average transfer applicant is seeking refuge from the Quad, reasons for transferring vary from looking for different living situations to different friends. And some students actually ask to transfer from the river to what they perceive as the better life at the Quad...
...They arepsychologically angered by it. They are people whowant certainty," the member is quoted as saying."They have no tolerance for ambiguity." Whoeverthe member was, his statement is very similar tothe statement by Seymour Martin Lipset, that "tobe a social scientist, one must have a hightolerance for ambiguity" (The File.)Readers can evaluate the pop psychology about"ambiguity" in light of my previous analyses...
...Board this week. But major banks fully intend to test the limits of how far they can move toward investment services. Last month, for example, Chase Manhattan introduced a deposit account with a yield tied to the stock market's performance. That measure provoked the mutual-fund industry to file a lawsuit alleging violation of Glass-Steagall. In short, the battle between investment bankers and their commercial rivals will continue to intensify, and the pressure on the beleaguered U.S. banking system will continue to grow...