Word: nix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paradoxically, Botha's plan may not win white approval in the referendum. The small group of progressive whites that continues to fight for a semblance of equality sees through the initiative and wants to nix it. More important, the ultra-conservative whites--Botha, believe it or not, has somehow become a "moderate"--are afraid the constitution will give too much power to the Indians and coloreds and will pave the way for eventual Black representation...
...illegal taping. Several potential blockbusters are being released in addition to Jedi, which last week rang up the biggest one-day box office in history ($6.2 million). Other surefire sequels: the 13th James Bond film, Superman III and Staying Alive, the follow-up to Saturday Night Fever. Says William Nix, who heads the antipiracy division of the Motion Picture Association of America: "These films have built-in demand for illegal copies. The damage could be the worst ever...
Congress, happily, senses the danger in UNESCO's restrictive press guidelines. Last year it threatened to withdraw its heavy financial backing of the agency--about a quarter of UNESCO's $180 million annual budget. What UNESCO must realize is that such an action would effectively nix much more than a communications program...
...something which may have happened at the age of 17 or 18 or 19," says Fox. Given the promise of a clean slate, offenders have little incentive to go public with legal actions or loud denials. Were Princeton's Napolitano--who is particularly upset that her plagiarism violation may nix her hopes of getting into law school--a Harvard student, she might never have raised legal hell...
Today, tomorrow and Wednesday students can vote in a referendum on the constitution. After the Faculty made clear last month that the inclusion of guaranteed minority seats in the new government inevitably would lead them to nix the plan, the student group drafting the constitution for more than five months quickly ended its circuitous bull sessions and eliminated the controversial minority representation clause. Not everyone was pleased with that move. "Some of you would trade your mother for a student government," one member told his compatriots. But in the end, all agreed that they would be foolish to miss...