Word: indoors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ITCA National Indoor Team Championships (Princeton...
Mama sits in her humble Guatemalan home and spins tales of a promised land she has seen only in the pages of Good Housekeeping. In America, she tells her daughter Rosa, you will find money, cars, TV, even indoor plumbing. "You flush it, and everything vanishes!" And so in Gregory Nava's 1983 film El Norte, Rosa and her brother Enrique embark on a perilous pilgrimage toward the golden north. When they eventually reach California, they do find honest work and small incomes -- the money dreams can buy. But it is a rasping irony to possess so little when surrounded...
...commit so much time of their collegiate lives throughout the academic year. Some of the special activities for the oarsmen during the off-season training period include the Tail of the Charles--the freshman equivalent of the Head of the Charles--in the fall, and the Crash-B Indoor Rowing Championships in the winter on MIT's simulation ergometers...
...Squash, women's 5 0 0 1st 7-0 Swimming, men's 6 1 0 2nd 10-2 Swimming, women's 7 0 0 1st 11-1 Tennis, men's 3 4 0 T-5th 11-9 Tennis, women's 7 0 0 1st 20-8 Track, men's indoor 0 2 0 -- 2-3 Track, women's indoor 0 2 0 -- 3-2 Track, men's outdoor 0 2 0 -- 1-2 Track, women's outdoor 0 2 0 -- 1-2 Volleyball, men's 4 4 1 8th 5-16-1 Volleyball, women...
There are also plenty of hazardous vapors. Says Chemist Gray Robertson, whose company in Fairfax, Va., has surveyed nearly 250 structures for foul indoor air: "The public tends to mistake tobacco smoke -- the only visible indoor contaminant -- for all pollution." Less readily detected are irritating fumes from copier-machine liquids, carbonless paper, paint, rugs, draperies, wall paneling and cleaning solvents. Many contain formaldehyde, which can cause nausea, rashes and menstrual irregularities. Ventilators also spew forth illness-causing bacteria and mold; such organisms find fertile breeding ground in air-conditioning and heating systems that are often turned off at night...