Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week a one-day general strike -the fourth in a month - paralyzed all of Pakistan's major cities. Demonstrators stopped trains, stoned cars and put two government newspapers to the torch...
...what happened north of the border at Sir George Williams University in downtown Montreal. There, students protesting alleged racism on the part of a young white biology teacher climaxed a 13-day occupation of the school's computer center by turning it into a shambles. They started a major fire in the building, littered the street with a blizzard of blank punch cards, and, like latter-day Luddites, demolished the two computers with axes. Riot police broke through barricades and arrested 97 people, but not before the rioters had done more than $2,000,000 of damage, twice...
...humor is as contemporary as the minute hand on a watch. For example, the hero is about to enter college. His father asks him what he intends to major in. The boy replies, "Hotel management," since he dreams of running his own hotel. The father says that he too had had a dream, that of owning a liquor store, but it had never come true. He cautions the boy that he must be realistic and have something solid to fall back on. Replies the boy: "I'm minoring in cinema...
...Bradley, whose skimpy 8-point average was a major disappointment for the Knicks last season, everything is suddenly clicking on the Scoreboard...
...right kind of insurance, probably in his 20s or 30s, and certainly years before he expects to need it. Then he is challenged to find the right doctor. For none of these choices are there any reliable buyers' guides. At successive times in his health history, three major components of care?doctors, hospitals and insurance?will be simultaneously involved...