Word: kent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study are business, engineering, computers and health professions. At Northwestern University, English majors declined by 50% from 1964 to 1982. This year's class at the University of Texas at Austin has 1,993 business majors, compared with only 1,217 for all the liberal arts. Says Kent Johnson, an agricultural economics major at Texas A & M: "You have to look at what kind of return you're going to get for your investment. You can't be a music major. It won't pay the bills." Concludes Gary Margolis, director of counseling at Middlebury College...
...Royal Marine commandos and Parachute Regiment troops near Port San Carlos. Slogging across the boggy ground, they had captured 1,600 Argentine troops near the settlement of Goose Green (see map). Then, in a combination of rapid marches and bold helicopter assaults, they secured the commanding height of Mount Kent, overlooking Port Stanley. Encountering almost no Argentine resistance, they set up forward observation posts on hills known as the Two Sisters, only six miles from the capital...
...last the end was in sight. From his secure position on Mount Kent, Major General John Jeremy Moore, commander of the British ground forces on the Falkland Islands, gazed through his binoculars at the blue-and-white Argentine flag fluttering over the capital, Port Stanley, twelve miles away. "We'll hoist the Union Jack down there just as soon as we can get there," he told his men confidently. "And believe me, it won't take long...
...continue," says Kent Joscelyn, a transportation specialist at the University of Michigan, "there must be reasonable grounds to believe a crime was committed." Experts agree that if drugs or other contraband are in plain view, police may seize it and then look further. In cases of suspected drunken driving, some officials believe that the smell of alcohol on a driver's breath justifies a Breathalyzer test. Of course, police can simply ask questions. Everyone has a constitutional right not to answer. But when officers at the Arkansas roadblock inquired whether anyone had drugs, a few honest travelers admitted that...
...describing some action like the bombing of the Port Stanley airfield, but the only illustration the networks could provide was a photo of the man who was speaking. It was almost as if the world were back in 1932, when people at home sat around ancient Atwater Kent radios to hear the news...