Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machines. Started less than eight years ago, Compaq is expected to reach sales of $3 billion in 1989. Last week the company did it again. Compaq introduced its eagerly awaited LTE, a laptop machine that packs all the power of a desktop computer into a package small enough to fit into a briefcase. The notebook-size machine has a standard keyboard and an easy-to-read backlit screen. Most important, the 6-lb. machine is the only one of its size that accepts standard 3.5-in. diskettes, which will enable users to transfer files from laptop to desktop...
...that Kirkland House is not maximally diverse is not to say that athletes fit some stereotype of "a jock," because they surely do not. It merely affirms the obvious: that people who spend most of their waking hours doing similar things share a strong commonality that distinguishes them in a very real sense from everyone else...
...same is true of any group. No one at Harvard thinks that all Black students fit a particular stereotype. Yet we would never tolerate a residential system that strongly segregated Blacks. Is it fair to classify Black students according to a single trait in this case...
...know about the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and we all know that it's supposed to happen again sometime. The epic aerial shots of the city-on-the-bay that the television networks played throughout last Tuesday evening certainly carried enough historical grandeur to fit into a future documentary on the 20th century. The World Series angle could only help: putting the Series off for more than a week nearly guarantees an historical asterisk, at least. And we were there...
Paul Wieck, a writer for The New Republic, said that the Hispanic community responds to different issues and concerns than the Black community and as a result would not really fit in as part of the Rainbow Coalition. "A major reason [for these differences]...is that the Hispanic community is more in the pattern of a Catholic ethnic group than a minority...