Word: gettingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lounge music may be to the symphony what Velveeta is to cheese, but hey, it's all part of what makes Las Vegas great. That is why 195 musicians are on strike against five casinos that want to replace them at least some of the time with audio tapes and...
Colleges started sharing information in the 1950s. Now critics say the system is tantamount to price fixing. College officials disagree, but they are complying with the inquiry. "I've done almost nothing but work on this request since July 31," says Amherst College treasurer James Scott. It will be worth...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynz eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or...
When it comes to getting and staying wet, there are still, of course, plenty of purists who have no use for oversize whirlpool baths and plastic logs. "You never swam till ya swam in a quarry," declares Marilyn Woodruff, owner for the past 22 years of Clearwater Quarry near Toledo...
But Bennett also fervently advocates getting tough on casual users, through punishments from boot camp to community service to the loss of driver's licenses and student loans. "In many ways, the casual user is a more significant carrier of problems than the addict," he says. "That person by example...