Word: hosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Like the host of any successful bash that at times came close to getting out of hand, the Soviet Union spent last week dealing with the confetti -- literal and symbolic -- generated by its just ended 19th All-Union Communist Party Conference. Moscow street workers pulled down the festive red bunting and banners that had decorated the Soviet capital during the conference's four days of extraordinarily open debates and disputes. More substantively, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev convened the 13 voting members of the ruling Politburo, who in turn scheduled a plenum of the 307-member policymaking Central Committee for later...
Unfazed by such criticism, Lipsig brings his crusading zeal to numerous other professional activities. He is host on a weekly cable-TV show on current issues; he also dispenses lawyerly advice in regular newspaper columns and on a weekly radio show. He brushes off complaints that he uses these outlets to encourage people to bring lawsuits. "All I do is educate people about their legal rights," he maintains. People must be learning. Several weeks ago, Lipsig's firm, which helped pioneer medical-malpractice claims, had to settle out of court in a legal-malpractice suit brought by a client...
...Summer Enirchment Program for Future Teachers will host sixth-and 11th-graders for six weeks at each of the Southern colleges which will emphasize academic skills and promote teaching as a possible career choice.All 11th-graders in this program will receive astipend close to the minimum wage...
...land of the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA Finals and the Final Four successfully host the world's most popular championship in cities where soccer fields number less than minituare golf courses...
Donald A. Norman is a noted psychologist, yet like many people he switches on the wrong lights, scalds himself in the shower and stands dumb before the mysteries of VCRs. The culprits, he says, are designers who fail to provide visual cues to the operation of a host of gadgets that influence the quality of life. A look at some things that don' t work and some that...