Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year at the Union I took particular notice of two groups of people eating dinner at adjacent tables. One group was seated at the weekly gay table and had a prominent sign accompanying them which read, "Gays and Friends." At the table nearest them was another group who displayed a more modest sign which read simply, "Heterosexual Table." I thought this somewhat sarcastic gesture was actually quite humorous: it made me aware that it is not obvious to many people why gay people would want to make an issue of their sexuality. Why would they want to form...
...sometimes all of the lunch break standing in lines rather than occupying the limited number of chairs and tables. In this way, the potential crisis of over-crowding in the dining area was averted. Unwilling to spend our precious lunch minutes standing in line, we walked to the nearest bakery, which sells white bread, dark bread, buns with raisins, buns without raisins, and spongy cookies sprinkled with a chalky white powder that tastes like Crest toothpaste...
...million of these men, in 45% of all homes with TV, tuned in the N.F.L., according to a Simmons Market Research study. That is six times as many as watch even high-rated series like Dallas. College football, with half the male total, is the N.F.L.'s nearest TV competitor. And advertisers will pay almost anything to get in on this football pool. One TV industry expert estimates that $25 million of CBS Broadcast's $300 million profit last year came from pro football...
...pictures were somewhat fuzzy and the hues none too bright. But no one was complaining. The images presented remarkable, virtually unprecedented views of the nearest thing to an extraterrestrial hothouse: the scorching surface of Venus, where temperatures hover around 900° F, and atmospheric pressures are 90 times as heavy as those on earth...
...photographers were Venera (for Venus) 13 and 14, the latest in a series of Soviet robot envoys to the earth's nearest planetary neighbor. Venera 13 lasted two hours and seven minutes on the Venusian griddle, while its twin worked about half as long. But their handiwork survived to become the hit of the show at the 13th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston last week. As the photographs were shown to some 560 scientists, most of them Americans, oohs and aahs rose from the audience. Says University of Minnesota Physicist Robert Pepin: "There was no small amount...