Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...zoning ordinance, which was presented to the City Council in the form of a petition signed by neighborhood residents, was passed on June 5, despite Harvard's objections. At that time, attorneys for the University sent a letter to the city indicating that Harvard would take legal action if the site were rezoned...
...explosion, technicians apparently noticed a dip in pressure along one section of the pipeline. But instead of searching for a leak, they turned up the gas flow to get the pressure back to normal, allowing huge quantities of propane, butane and other highly flammable gasses to escape and form an atmospheric "lake." Fatefully, two passenger trains on the famed TransSiberian Railway were passing each other when the gases, ignited probably by a spark or a discarded cigarette, detonated with the force of a ten-kiloton bomb (the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima was 12.5 kilotons...
Surrounded by sacred cows, O'Rourke lives on a diet of hamburger. He considers it bad form to criticize one society when, with very little effort, two can be skewered: "The same polite behavior that makes you a welcome guest in the drawing rooms of Kensington is equally appropriate among the Mud People of the fierce Orokaiva tribe of Papua New Guinea -- if you have a gun." Closer to home, he examines every appalling aspect of modern life. Under the heading of "Rebuffs," he notes that "at one time the 'cut direct' was delivered by looking right at a person...
...version, 3 million copies of which are being shipped to churches, carries only half the 547 hymns contained in the previous, 1966 edition. Of those, 162 survive with rejiggered words. The most significant alterations involve not war and peace but the battle of the sexes. With women destined to form half of Methodist clergy early in the 21st century, the 16-man, nine-woman hymnal committee desexed many a familiar line that was deemed to perpetuate male bias...
...agent. In 1980 he signed up author I.F. Stone after singing Homeric verse to him on the phone -- in Greek, of course. (Wylie later handled Stone's unlikely 1988 best seller, The Trial of Socrates.) Three years ago, Wylie persuaded British agents Gillon Aitken and Brian Stone to form a partnership. Wylie has brought Susan Sontag and other distinguished authors to the firm, yet many of the big names on his list are either one-shot autobiographers or recruits from his London partners...