Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...From outside I think a lot of people think Harvard is elitist," says Charles G. Barnes '88 of Halifax, Nova Scotia. But he adds, "My father is a used car salesman. I didn't even think of applying until the end of grade...
...Canadian Armed Forces Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Maj. Bill Whitehead told The Associated Press that the rescue operation began when a Canadian fishing vessel, the Atlantic Reaper, radioed yesterday afternoon that it had spotted two large lifeboats...
Shultz, though he has long been an advocate of sticking with SALT II, was blunt. At a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Halifax, N.S., he described the agreement, which would have expired in 1985, as "obsolete, unratified and being violated." He stressed that the Administration is interested in drastic reductions in nuclear arsenals and said that from now on the U.S. will decide its arms policy on Soviet behavior, including human rights violations and actions in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Cambodia...
...Give My Baby the Chair (2 hr.). TV movie about blind, interracial couple living in South Africa whose seven-year-old dyslexic son has been accused of rape and murder. Linda Blair and Edward Asner. Tender, raging. 8:00 Sports Spectacular: Bowling from Halifax (R) 8:30 Brighton War Bride (5 hr.). A 78-part BBC series on British hotel life during World War I, specifically January-March 1917. Superb cast...
...table is nearly able to walk while suspended; immersed in a tub of water, it makes a fairly impressive try at swimming. Those abilities deteriorate within a few months. The same process seems to occur with intellectual skills that are not used. Psychologists Janet Werker of Dalhousie University in Halifax, N.S., and Richard Tees of the University of British Columbia have shown that babies of six to eight months can distinguish sounds that are not used in their native language, but they have much greater difficulty by the age of twelve months. Japanese babies, for example, have no trouble with...