Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iwas returning to my dormitory when I realized I had forgotten my key again. Reaching my entryway, I rattled the doorknob in frustration. I then noticed the door seemed rather loose, so I gave it a tug, and it came open. Just like that, without a key. Glad to be inside, but dispirited by Harvard's shoddy security system, I plodded up to my room and began to write...
Intruders enter dormitories with ease, immediately behind students. The administration knows this, which is why they urge vigilance and caution. Granted, if a soiled vagrant, thoroughly soused and clenching a dripping dagger, sputtered, "Hold that door, will you?" some might simply prop the door open for an additional second or two without looking. To these disembodied few, vigilance and caution should of course be advised...
...make sure that their workers can afford decent housing? Absolutely, said the maids, bell hops, waiters and waitresses at nine of Boston's leading hotels. No way, management replied. But some 3,000 members of the local hotel and restaurant union prevailed last week in contract talks that may open up a new category of employee benefits. The hotels agreed to set up a housing fund of up to $1 million to help their workers pay up-front fees for rental of apartments and down payments on houses. The concept of a worker housing fund is still so new, however...
...last week, hundreds of narcotics investigators fanned out to collar scores of reputed Mafia drug traffickers. And across the Atlantic, U.S. FBI agents rounded up still more suspects in eight cities. A trail that began in Buffalo and Philadelphia three years ago had led the two countries to crack open a powerful transatlantic drug ring accused of flooding the U.S. with Italian heroin smuggled in wine bottles, tomato cans and the luggage of Sicilian housewives. At week's end the arrests stood at 80, a virtual Who's Who of Mafiosi in Italy...
...official languages rang out, a chuckle began to rumble through the chamber. The exhausted delegates seemed to have found a release for pent-up tension in the very sounds they were hearing. By the time China offered the Mandarin affirmative zan cheng, the chuckles had widened into open laughter...