Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graduate students have mixed opinions of their professor's activities. Some say the professors are available at request and that they do not miss their professors' absence since they do mostly independent research. One student in Ausubel's lab says he has heard miserable tales from students who felt that they had been neglected, but he adds that he likes the arrangement since the industrial opportunities available to Ausubel siphon down to him. If Ausubel doesn't have time to write a story about his research for a popular magazine, the student says, he often asks one of his students...
...senior year at Newton South. He spent last summer researching and writing his senior thesis on the Rhodesian Labor Party from 1920 to 1948. His father (who was born in Rhodesia and is now an importer and international business consultant) and mother (who was born in Jackson, Miss.) moved back to the capital city of Salisbury in 1977. He remembers well the long civil war that turned Lan Smith's Rhodesia into Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. The country side, Samkange says, was too dangerous even to pass through, and even Salisbury was not quiet. He adds, "It really is true...
...jubilant that Exxon shut down the Colony Shale Oil Project in Parachute, Colo. [May 17]. I will not miss the high prices for food and housing, the escalating crime, or the loss of our quiet way of life. Because of Exxon's synfuel program, our fields, orchards and beautiful mountains were being forfeited to accommodate the influx of people...
...from that lovely little town right up the street from Hollywood, the home of the hot tub and the avocado salad, Mariska Hargitay, 18, this year's Miss Beverly Hills. Mariska is the offspring of Actress Jayne Mansfield, who died when her daughter was three years old, and Mickey Hargitay, a former body builder turned real estate investor. Following in her mother's footsteps, young Hargitay will enter U.C.L.A. next fall, where she will be a theater arts major. Her 36-24-36 frame may lack some of the oomph of her mother's famed...
...winners of the Palme d'Or satisfied the byzantine demands of this United Nations of Cinema. Missing was made by a Greek director on location in Mexico for a major Hollywood studio, and as one caustic observer put it, "The film couldn't miss in Cannes: it was both American and anti-American." As for Yol, this slow, powerful study of six Turkish prisoners on a short leave to visit their families was "directed" by its author, Yilmaz Güney, while he was being held in a Turkish jail on a murder charge that his supporters believe...