Word: paras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shedding flab and following a diet rich in vegetables and vegetable oils, but low in red meat and dairy products-along with moderate drinking (a cocktail or two a day)-can also elevate HDL. In the future, drugs may also be used; a compound known as PHB (for sodium para-hexadecylaminobenzoate) has been shown by Boston University's Dr. William Hollander to raise HDL levels in monkeys...
...which the conflict exclusively takes place in the working class. In the larger cities, particularly Belfast and Londonderry, where the violence predominates and where Protestants and Catholics live in tense proximity, the population is heavily working class. Virtually all the major violence occurs in working class neighborhoods. The main para-militaries--the IRA, and the Ulster Defense Association (UDA) and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), both Protestant groups--are all manned by residents of these communities. Even the British army, manned by recruits from the back streets of Leeds or the gorboels of Glascow, is a working-class force...
Andrew H. Braiterman '76 says he is heading to San Francisco, where he hopes to find a job doing either para-legal or computer work before entering law school next fall...
...like two great men meeting who decided to make a very important statement that had been on their minds about this country. Maybe if they had been younger [both are 57], more sparks would have been flying-and also more innocence. They wanted to do a sort of para-Broadway musical, but they were pulled down from their Olympian Heights by the demands of the audience for illusion, for magic, for mystery...
Borosage said the CIA is conducting a massive para-military intervention in Angola, that is the latest secret war of the U.S., modelled on American intervention in Laos...