Word: nixed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dostart says that while he and his roommates wanted to go to Greece, fear of terrorism in an international airport with a bad reputation was a factor in their decision to nix a visit there. "We wouldn't fly into Athens," he says. They had thought about using some other means of transportation to visit Greece, but they have decided they don't have enough time to make the trip, Dostart says...
...chance for me to break out of Seventh Avenue and really do my own thing. The East Village is just a location, just an area, but it became a launching pad for young designers." Some of these flamboyantly monikered tyros (like Animal-X, Katpeacent, Nick Nix) could be easily confused with the local rock talent (Cargo Cult, Live Skull), which is no accident. The relationship between music and design is especially tight along these streets. The designers catch a spirit from the tunes, and tune in to new ideas at clubs as various as the trendy-tony Palladium...
Freshmen and their prefects said they don't think the drinking nix will hurt the program. "I don't think the new policy will hurt the freshmen prefect program at all," said Benjamin Waldman '89 of Pennypacker Hall. "The prefects' function is to acquaint us to life at Harvard and with Boston. The social aspect of the program wasn't a big deal...
...Nancy Nix, 9, of Gainesville, Ga., announced to her mother at breakfast one day that she wanted to be part of the Olympics. After Mrs. Nix persuaded AT&T to waive its requirement that runners be ten years old or older, she and her daughter set about raising the money. "We baked Easter cakes, Mother's Day cakes, pound cakes and sheet cakes," Nancy's mother recalls. Nancy made some of her own crafts and set about selling them to her neighbors. When her turn came, she took off so fast that she passed up the press truck...
...accounts for 46.5% of France's total energy consumption, and nuclear reactors supply 23%. According to government projections, by the year 2000, nuclear power will provide 30% of the country's energy, and petroleum only 27%. Some time this year France will start up Super-Phénix, the world's first commercial breeder reactor. Using advanced nuclear technology, it will be able to produce 60 times as much energy from a given amount of uranium as the present generation of reactors...