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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stadium design has also been cited as a reason for the frequency of English soccer violence. Trouble at games often starts among the working-class youths who fill up the low-cost, standing-room areas known as terraces, similar to the areas occupied by the Liverpool and Juventus fans in the Brussels stadium. Sir Philip Goodhart, a Conservative Member of Parliament, believes that one reason there is less fan mayhem at sporting events in the U.S., a nation that many Britons regard as violence prone, is that its stadiums have fewer standing-room sections. Says Goodhart: "It is very difficult...
...women's studies and another discipline, it has yet to snag any topflight scholar. Last spring Harvard lost renowned feminist literary critic Elaine Showalter to Princeton, which has demonstrated its commitment to the field. Apparently the committee has become bogged down, holding out for a savior both to fill this single chair and to double as an administrator who will generate an entire women's studies program--an absurdly unrealistic expectation...
...official said the Kennedy School has just formed a search committee to fill the chair...
...starters, subscribers and their doctors will fill out detailed medical questionnaires. Either the insurer or a medical facility will then encode the data onto the cards, using a personal computer and a special "read/write" laser device, which Blue Cross hopes to make available to doctors and hospitals for about $1,000. Physicians later use the same equipment to retrieve X rays and other data and record new information. Says Sherlock: "LifeCard will save time, it will save money and, more important, it will save lives...
...hard-drinking tribe is almost wearisomely familiar. It has been reinforced in books and movies by characters from Jake Barnes, the hard-boiled news correspondent of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, to Lew Marsh, the boozing reporter that James Cagney plays in the 1951 film Come Fill the Cup. Even TV's Lou Grant & Co. regularly restored their spirits with spirits at the local hangout...