Word: matter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This policy protects the company from future suits from not just unborn, but unconceived children. To keep their jobs, women workers--no matter what their child-rearing plans for the future--must provide the company with documented proof of infertility...
Even before leaving the police station, Yeltsin asked that the matter be dropped -- understandably enough, since the attempt at foul play never actually happened. According to Yeltsin's chauffeur, he dropped his boss off in Uspensky armed with two dozen roses. The bridge from which Yeltsin supposedly was tossed measured 50 ft. high and the water below 3 ft. deep -- a set of facts that would have left Yeltsin with serious injuries in any real fall. Yet aside from his soaking, Yeltsin was none the worse for wear. Said Bakatin to Supreme Soviet Deputies: "There was no attack...
...matter how blase Californians pretend to be about earthquakes, this one shook that faxade. Lisa Sheeran, a public relations manager, picked up a rental car in Colma, just off the San Andreas fault. As she opened one of the doors, the vehicle bounced up and down. "What's wrong with this car?" she asked. The rental agent shrugged and said, "I don't know." Then both watched a wave of undulating earth approach them from a graveyard at the bottom of a hill. It reminded her of the ghostly movie Alien...
...house system is important. Few things amuse me as much as Yardlings who insist that house life doesn't matter. (Especially when those same students quake at the prospect of living in Adams of Eliot.) Like it or not, Harvard's campus-wide social life is insignificant in relation to house life...
Personally, I would prefer 100 percent randomization to the 50 percent or more plan proposed last year by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57. But no matter what solution the College implements, it must be based on random assignments. No other alternative produces the same result with fewer drawbacks...