Word: lande
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...blunt and remarkably plain language, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the University of Texas law school could not use different admission standards for minority students than it does for white applicants. The court's decision was a frontal assault on the current law of the land--embodied in the Supreme Court's 1978 Bakke decision--which prohibits quotas but allows schools to consider race as a factor in college applications...
AFTER DWELLING IN THE LAND OF EUphemism and caution for 11 years, Ian Uydess had finally had enough. Enough, he says, of seeing lawyers in the laboratory, his language vetted for such dangerously accurate words as "addictive." Enough too of not being able to do the job he believed he had been hired to do: develop a safer cigarette for Philip Morris, the world's largest tobacco company. Uydess, an associate senior scientist at Philip Morris for 11 years, quietly resigned from his job in 1989. Not until two weeks ago, however, when he witnessed the spectacle of his former...
...Catholic churches, with their bingo and Las Vegas nights, have been little help, while main-line Protestant churches just "like to pass resolutions," Grey scoffs. "I don't have time to organize the goddam rear. This is a citizens' movement. We're the 82d Airborne. We've got to land people...
...land that is entirely linear is itself limited, and the sorrow of a place like California, it often seems, is that no one there knows who he will be (or who he will be with) a year from now. The absence of external rhythms forces everyone to try to make his own. And a world without seasons is as unnatural as a person without moods: even tropical islands speak of wet seasons and dry; and even places with climatic changes often add divisions of their own (thus the English ruling class follows the season from Henley to Ascot to Wimbledon...
...Russell land such big names after only one art-house success? "I had written a script that made agents sit up and pay attention," says the scruffily handsome director, whose flaws do not include false modesty. "I begged him for the part," agrees Stiller, who plays the lead character, a young entomologist who goes off in search of his biological parents. Moore wanted to play against type as a neurotic, sexually aggressive mother. "What I'm hoping," she says, "is that people in the business will consider me for a new type of work...