Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...club system began as a multi-tiered system with entry level clubs that admitted prep school students, waiting clubs, and finally, the "final clubs"--only a few of which still exist. The attrition of the club system loosely parallels the progress of Harvard towards greater diversity in admissions and less reliance on a few prep school for students...
Next month an exhibit of Rubinger's photographs spanning 40 years of Israeli life will open in Jerusalem. He selected pictures that focused on ordinary Israelis and leaders in less formal moments. The retrospective, like the book that will be published in conjunction with it, is titled, appropriately, "Witness...
...gazing over a plate of Traditional Trainman's French Toast, past the plastic yellow rose, out the window of the dining car of the California Zephyr as it leaves Salt Lake City behind and makes for the mountains. The tables are full of people ignoring their breakfast, a comment less on the quality of the food than on the galactic beauty of the scene outside. Vinson and his wife Lois are on their way home to Memphis the long, old-fashioned way: across the Rockies to Chicago, then south on the City of New Orleans. Every inch, every jolt, every...
...fight: as of April 23, the fifth largest U.S. airline will be the first major carrier to ban smoking on all flights within North America. The ban goes beyond federal regulations, scheduled to take effect the same day, that will outlaw smoking on domestic flights of two hours or less. Northwest executives concede that the policy may drive away some puffing passengers, but they believe that many zealous nonsmokers will become new customers...
...face on the results. Said a senior Administration official: "The ultimate test of democracy is to have the party in power lose an election to the opposition." Congress, which has authorized nearly $3 billion in military and economic aid for El Salvador over the past seven years, may be less sanguine...