Word: metting
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...within a span of seven years. A. Walton Litz, a professor of English at Princeton and a member of the Oxford University Press advisory council, says, "I've never been associated with a project, I've never even heard of a project, that was so incredibly complicated and that met every deadline." Some of this speed and success can be attributed to the efficient cooperation among firms in Britain, Canada and the U.S., all of whom contributed essential parts to the larger whole. But the principal reason why this edition was prepared so rapidly can be cited in a word...
...band's history may be pedestrian: Buck and Stipe met in the Athens record store where Buck worked; Berry and Mills, high school friends from Macon, Ga., fell in with the other two when they started school in Athens. Stipe's personal particulars (son of a nonmusical military family that moved a lot) may be unremarkable enough, which could account for his strenuous efforts to keep them from public consumption. But no band that makes music as spooky and splendid as Orange Crush and Hairshirt (two of Green's outstanding cuts) could ever be considered boring, not even potentially...
However incontrovertible the logic, even Baker admits the Administration will have no Nicaraguan policy "without Congress being a full partner." Last week he met privately with key congressional leaders to urge that support for the contras, scheduled to run out on March 31, be extended at the rate of about $4 million a month. The Democrats haven't said yes yet, but they have been willing to listen. "There's a lot more trust with these guys than there ever was with the Reagan crowd," says Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd, a persistent critic of Reagan's Central America policy...
...TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief Kenneth Banta. They're sometimes a real part of the job of covering a bloc of nations not always known for their hospitality to the press. During one trip to Prague to attend a dissident conference, Banta and his translator were met at their hotel by a pair of dark sedans filled with secret police eager to dissuade the reporters from venturing out. Undaunted, Banta's translator gunned his small Czech-made Skoda down the city's cobblestone streets, one of the cars roaring behind. He finally shook off the pursuers with a neat...
Williams and Cochrane have also met with representatives of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to investigate the possibilty of pursuing legal action...