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...flare-up began last week when members of the student cabinet moved to oust the president, alleging that he had covered up an investigation of unauthorized telephone calls...
...When you have a lot of people hacking around with sticks, tempers flare and injuries are inevitable--these guys become like savages with clubs," Pacquette said...
...latest flare-up surrounding the one-time Business School professor occurred in March when statements Kilbridge reportedly made in Seattle, Wash., evoked critical student comment and a faculty call for a presidential resignation...
...refs case the various colleges' offensive patterns so they know what to look for in the constant bump and grind that can flare into fisticuffs unless kept under control. "It's a new game every night," Hannon says. "I know the teams that run the fast break and know that I have to get down the court." He points out that there are many teams that press and zone-press right off the bat, forcing officials to monitor swarming action at both ends of the court...
Last summer, Crutzen declared that a large solar flare in 1972 must have doubled the amount of nitrogen oxides in the stratosphere at an altitude of about 25 miles over the polar regions, and thus depleted the ozone over these areas by an amount he calculated at 20%. There was a way of checking his theory. A Nimbus satellite, in orbit at the time, had been measuring the amount of ultraviolet light reflected from the earth's atmosphere. Because ozone absorbs ultraviolet, any decrease in ozone would result in an increase in the ultraviolet "seen" by the satellite. Sure...