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Word: informative (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The U.S. government failed to inform nuclear bomb factory workers after learning in the late 1940s that releases of radiation from the facilities posed serious health risks, according to a congressional report released yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Failed to Reveal Radiation Hazards | 12/19/1989 | See Source »

...rape of two women at the Business School brings to light the security problems that students and employers face. The chief security problem seems to be lack of communication...the University should step up its campaign to inform students of its protective services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plus Ca Change... | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...view these discussions among ourselves with a peculiarly conspiratorial twist. By nearly universal consensus here, we have occasionally experienced instances of offensive or violatory behavior in the past. As Master Pfister's letter points out, these may well be isolated incidents, but they also color our perceptions and inform our concerns. Would anyone among us argue that it is reasonable or appropriate, for example, to demand a blow job for a bottle of Freixenet, or to call someone a "faggot" because he or she refuses to have sex? These concerns stem not from a desire to impose puritanical standards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Secret Santa and Kirkland House Traditions | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

Violatory incidents may be isolated, and they may be confined to the past. Our ongoing discussion presumes no present or future behavior, however, nor does it characterize all behavior in terms of excesses; it only serves to heighten awareness and to inform. At Kirkland House, we have chosen to engage in a continuing dialogue about such issues because we care enough about the well-being of our whole community to talk about it from time to time. Ms. Sunder's misunderstandings only serve to perpetuate the worst stereotypes of our house. The Crimson has chosen to portray as "dirty laundry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Secret Santa and Kirkland House Traditions | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

...winter morning, Will's mother and father inform him that his favorite fauna, the woolly mammoth, is extinct. But the boy knows better. Squinting his eyes, he manages to conjure up the prehistoric past, complete with saber- toothed tigers, early versions of horses, warthogs and, of course, the elephant's tusky ancestor. In Will's Mammoth (Putnam; $14.95), Stephen Gammell augments Rafe Martin's whimsical text with celebrations of early mammals, snow and that greatest of all time machines, a child's imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Cats, Myths and Pizza | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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