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...pretty fair songwriter and a hokey holy terror of a performer. He has a solid, pleasant voice -- short on character and totally short-changed on funk -- and he's possessed of a mean weather eye for the prevailing winds of showbiz. He went to Oklahoma State University on a partial athletic scholarship ("Athletics always kept me in school") and majored in advertising and marketing. That background, competitive and commercially calculated, gave him a cool edge when he was ready to make his assault on Nashville. "Stunk at everything I did," he claims. "Music was the one thing I felt proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Garth Brooks: Friends In Low Places | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

Boyle expressed concern over the "collapse ofprinciples" apparent in the U.S. today. Shesuggested abstinence, birth control and adoptionas partial solutions to the current problem...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Students Debate Issues Surrounding Abortion | 3/17/1992 | See Source »

...Partial randomization--Twenty-five percent of first-years are randomly selected to be randomly assigned to a random selection of houses. The rest are randomly assigned lottery numbers and randomly assigned to one of their four house choices. If those are full, they are randomly assigned to open space in any house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lost Causes | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

Today: rainy and windy during the morning, high in the mid 50s. Chance of a thunderstorm then partial clearing during the afternoon, high in the 40s. Tonight: partly cloudy, windy and much colder, chance of a flurry, low 20 to 25. Tomorrow: mostly sunny, windy and cold, high near...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOW JONES | 3/11/1992 | See Source »

Diplomats said Iraq apparently was seeking a partial lifting of the sanctions, in proportion to how much it is obeying the Security Council's cease-fire terms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS BRIEFS | 3/11/1992 | See Source »

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