Word: findings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replay of the famous 1987 saga of the garbage scow that couldn't find a home -- only worse. This time the carrier is a 61-car train. On board: 5,000 tons of sewage sludge, most of it treated human waste. It is nothing to sniff at. In fact, nobody wants...
...Find a silver-bullet issue even more powerful than race. The Wilder camp braced for a close contest, even after Coleman, perhaps their weakest Republican challenger, won a bruising three-way G.O.P. primary. Coleman immediately launched a fusillade of negative spots, dredging up the personal charges against Wilder from the 1985 campaign. Without a cutting issue to transform the debate, the internal calculus in the Wilder campaign was that its candidate was mired at around 45% support, partly because of Democratic defections stemming from a rancorous coal miners' strike in southwestern Virginia and a Labor Day riot among black college...
Following the Money: President Derek C. Bok knows where to go to find his big financial backers. He held his annual dinner for $10,000-plus contributors yesterday at the Harvard Club of New York, where fundraisers say more than 40 percent of the University's donations originate...
...find an example of this blind spot, we need look no further than the most popular course on campus this semester, Gen. Ed. 105, "Literature of Social Reflection." Taught by renowned psychiatrist Robert Coles '50, the course offers a reading list of predominantly white male authors, like James Agee, George Orwell, and Raymond Carver, although it does include a smattering of women and minorities, such as Ralph Ellison, Tillie Olsen, and Flannery O'Connor. The authors and texts, supplemented by occasional movies and documentaries, are divided into categories like "Ordinary American, So-called Working Class Men and Women: Several Angles...
...Yale cut the deficit to 21-20 at the end of the third quarter. But you already know better. As Harvard drives early in the fourth quarter, you know Perry will find Collins with a 30-yd. pass and Bianchi with a 10-yd. pass to set up Art McMahon's 1-yd. scoring run. You already know Perry will score on a keeper later in the quarter...