Word: frequented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...need for clearer norms for safeguarding academic independence is particularly evident at Harvard. Real-world controversies and outside pressures have become a routine part of life at the University. Debates and demonstrations over public policy issues are frequent and often furious. And pressure to divest stock in companies that do business in countries with repressive governments has brought those debates back to Harvard's corporate home. Meanwhile, United States government agencies that provide funding for academic research are attempting to close the door on free and open scholarship, and the need for universities to lobby in support of federal...
Sullivan also said he hoped a complete ban on smoking in restaurants would eventually be passed. "We're not talking about annoyance--we're talking about death," he said, echoing the Surgeon General's frequent comment that "smoking is the number one public health problem in the United States...
...knack for making destinations sound both seductive and easily negotiable. And the best part of it is that he is usually right. His long section on Britain is dead-on, and written with infectious gusto. His list of the best small restaurants in Venice would take even frequent visitors years of trial and error to draw...
Officially, the FAA blames the weather for 70% of this year's delays -- frequent fog and thunderstorms have plagued the busy Northeast, and other storms assaulted the Midwest. Any weather hitch quickly gets amplified in the prevailing system of hub airports, in which large airlines attract commuter feeders to major cities. A significant delay at one hub quickly affects ( connecting flights there and spreads to other centers...
...frequent traveler in the First and Third worlds, Theroux has undoubtedly seen excesses and disasters that have stimulated his imagination. His book's one flaw is that it is too observant. Descriptions and exotic details help build a brave new fictional world, but too many gadgets and repetitions can obstruct characterization. Perhaps that is what the author intended; he usually keeps a cool emotional distance from his characters. Yet his ambitious conception has the power to raise readers' temperatures, by taking them back to the future and the chance for a new beginning...