Word: gate
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...Behind Dupuy are a several bulky machines, each equipped with a green laser that etches English subtitles one frame per second onto the French drama Lemming. Each frame clicks as it goes through the machine's gate, the same two-line sentence being engraved some 30 times until with a whir it advances to the next subtitle. It's a methodical, precise sequence that will take about 10 hours per print...
...Still, even the luxury section is at double capacity. In fact, the American says, he is envious of the prisons depicted in the Hollywood movies he watches there. Just inside the second gate, where many of the shootings allegedly occur, inmates mill about freely in the hallways, far from their cells, joking around and chatting on cell phones, which are supposedly not permitted...
...university is a temple to meritocracy, where the religious ardor of intellectualism purifies us of our class distinctions. To the extent that class does exist, it checks itself at Johnston gate. If legacy status gave you leg up in the admissions process, no one asks you about it once you’re here. Overt social elitism would be as shocking as racism, and condemned as such. Even some final clubs shield themselves from the shrill accusation of “classism” by waiving dues for cash-strapped members...
...better education. Their first big victory came in 1969 with the black-armband case, called Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District. In a 7-to-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that students don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech ... at the schoolhouse gate" as long as they don't cause "substantial disruption" at school. Courts gave students even more rights over the next decade, but the rise of drugs and alcohol on campus made judges increasingly sympathetic to schools. In the '80s, the Supreme Court cut back the rights granted in Tinker, telling schools...
...point, the suspect jumped over a gate at Mather House. Craig followed the suspect into the House while Downer, who was on his cell phone with HUPD at the time, ran around the side of the dormitory. Craig's roommate, Brandon R. Logigian ’07, said he followed the chase from about 20 yards behind. Craig said the suspect was a 6’3” heavy-set black male wearing khakis and a blue and white striped shirt...