Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School responded to our demands by inviting Julius LeVonne Chambers and Jack Greenberg, two visiting attorneys, who together could only spare a total of three weeks from their busy schedules, to teach a course. "Racial Discrimination and Civil Rights," during the irregular Winter Term. Moreover, the course was announced after all students had already registered for the entire 1982-83 academic year...
There are grounds, though, for taking a hopeful view. By far the most important of these is the fairly steady, though irregular, drop in the inflation rate from its frightening peaks of 1979-80. During the 1970s, surges of inflation eventually undermined every economic upswing and led to new slumps, which brought about only temporary slowdowns in price rises. But many economists believe that the length and depth of the present recession have wrung inflation out of the economy more thoroughly than the preceding busts...
Nothing in Rocky III seems fresh. And Rocky Balboa's charm wears thin. His lines are no longer startlingly expressive--they just seem startlingly ungrammatical and forced. "Nobody owes nobody nothing"; "it seems like everybody want to beat me up"; "don't get mentally irregular. "Maybe in Rocky, perhaps in Rockey II, these lines would work. But in Rocky III they are heavy handed and unoriginal, as if Stallone were trying to steal from his own previous films...
...debate soon rises to rage. Less innocent than powerless, King finds his "book" for the show increasingly interrupted by caterwauling songs. His prostitutes, college boys and blue-mouthed sheriff-hero are transformed into sanitized cartoons. Disputes with collaborators become glacial standoffs or public snits. A fourth Alamo irregular, 6-ft. 7-in. Director and Choreographer Tommy Tune, fears that the shorter King will "strike" him: "I go home exhausted and all I can see when I close my eyes is your angry face!" King scratches his head. "That dude grew up on a different planet," he decides...
...bookselling company which has been banned on campus for the past seven years because of its irregular recruiting practices has allegedly been violating college regulations again this year while trying to attract summer employees...