Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHILE THE ACSR CONTINUES only to call for still further study, South African blacks each day face arbitrary arrest, torture, poverty-level wages and the complete and systematic denial of fundamental civil and political liberties. Meanwhile the white supremacist South African minority, under the tutelage of the reprehensive Vorster government, daily grows more entrenched. Harvard students, faculty, alumni and employees opposed to apartheid must now redouble their efforts in the face of Harvard's carefully contrived institutional intransigence. The Corporation appears ready once again to second-guess its advisory committee in adopting a policy even more socially retrograde than that...
...after coffee, taking the Mondale and Carter families on a journey through the heavens. Carter asked most of the questions, his eyes bright with the sense of adventure, urging that any new missions to Mars seek out mountains and valleys and old volcanoes instead of staying on the more level or gently rolling surfaces...
...wheeled into the recovery room. After 15 minutes, she awakes feeling cramps. One woman in the recovery room is vomiting into a paper bag, while others are crying or moaning. Stacy wants to get out quickly: "I can't listen to that." To bring up her blood-sugar level, a staffer gives her a cup of ginger ale, some Lorna Boone cookies and a Tylenol painkiller. They make her feel nauseated again. But soon Stacy and her mother are back on the street. The fresh air revives her. "I feel light," she says, "so good...
...midweek Israel's Defense Minister Ezer Weizman flew to Cairo for the fifth time since last November. This was the first high-level meeting between Israeli and Egyptian officials in nearly two months, and for that reason alone was interpreted by some observers as a new, tentative step toward serious negotiations. After two rounds of talks, and three hours of discussion between Sadat and Weizman, the Egyptian government announced that the Israelis had offered no new proposals and that there would be no more formal meetings of the political or military committees until Jerusalem had changed its position, notably...
Tennis, like sports in general, allows us a brief chance to focus our energies completely. We can single-mindedly commit our time and our energies. In addition, tennis offers a rare chance to manipulate our lens-like perspectives. It allows us to narrowly focus our perspectives to the level of the game and enjoy its intensity. However, at the same time, by opening the lens further, we can allow the larger context to flood...