Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this small but increasingly strident group, a victory for Hanoi was not regrettable but morally desirable. Our humiliation was seen as an object lesson in the immorality of America's postwar leadership and as a convenient tool to demoralize the entire U.S. Establishment-business, labor, academe, the media, Congress-which was perceived as an obstacle to the forward march of history...
Behavioral Effects. The principal active element in marijuana, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), like alcohol, impairs motor coordination, the ability to follow a moving object and to detect a flash of light. Since these functions are necessary for safe driving, the report notes, their impairment "may suggest a substantial risk." The effects may last four to eight hours after the time the user feels a "high," unlike alcohol, which is more quickly metabolized. Marijuana hampers short-term memory, slows learning and produces distortions of judgment, including reactions of panic and confusion. Consequently, there is special concern since much of the heavy...
Although the Crimson article neglects to name the company's shares Harvard owned which led to the ownership of Fluor shares, one must presume that Harvard's interest was in St. Joe Minerals, which was the object of Fluor's friendly takeover bid in April of 1981. It doesn't take much of a political observer to know that Fluor's work on South Africa's coal gasification plans has enabled that racist regime to further sustain itself, reason enough to sell, of course...
...victim, who was uninjured, told police that the two men approached her on Holyoke Place, the street that ends at the Lowell House archway, at about 10.50 p.m., Chafing said. He added that one man grabbed her from behind and the other pointed an object at her stomach and said. "Drop your purse...
Chafin said the victim could not identify the object the man was holding, but "she assumed...