Word: guardedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Berger is the last to expect the sort of perfect restoration in his utopian vision. His book presents hope with a large dose of very guarded expectations. Yet the people he describes have started down the right road. As Congressman Udall declares at the end of his forward: "Their stories...
The Macintoshes are guarded by proctors from noon until midnight. Proctors keep students who are not in Computer Sciences 11 or Math 21a from using the computers for word processing. About 400 to 600 students need to use the computers for course work.
One reason, paradoxically enough, may be tighter security by Western governments and officials. U.S. Army and Air Force bases that were once lightly guarded are now fortified camps. Embassies in many capitals look like urban redoubts. As a result, terrorists are looking elsewhere for targets. In the case of the...
Still, the Soviets were taking no chances. On Friday they evacuated more than 100 embassy dependents and nonessential staff to Damascus, where they were to be flown back to Moscow. The bus and truck convoy that transported the frightened Soviets was guarded by heavily armed Lebanese Communist and Druze militiamen...
Amis' routine back in London has settled down after some turbulent times. "My second wife (Author Elizabeth Jane Howard) walked out on me about five years ago," he says, adding "thank God. I didn't say thank God then, of course, but I do now." He currently shares a house...