Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fernands attributes part of her difficulty in finding-people to play to the fact that Lionel is a fairly small dorm with only about 60 people. "Everyone has their own particular sport. There's not enough people for any one sport," she said...
...week's end Lorenzo was working on another bold move. Sources close to Texas Air confirmed that both TWA chairman Carl Icahn and New York developer Donald Trump were negotiating with Lorenzo to buy all or part of Eastern. Trump's particular interest is the shuttle connecting Boston, New York City and Washington...
...easy explanation, and the one that Michael Dukakis has been hinting at with his economic nationalist talk, is that U.S. companies are the victims of unfair foreign trade practices. Japan, in particular, is accused of erecting barriers against American imports and of "dumping" products in the U.S. at prices that are below the cost of manufacture. The only response, the argument goes, is to protect American industry with quotas and higher tariffs...
...this has helped depress the numbers that networks live by. A decade ago, the benchmark of prime-time success was a Nielsen rating of 20. (The rating refers to the percentage of total TV homes that are tuned in to a particular show. The "share" refers to the percentage of homes watching TV that are tuned to that show.) In the 1980-81 season, 28 network series achieved a 20 rating or better; last season only nine did. For many weeks last summer, not a single network show cracked the 20-rating level...
...Jews alike, must cry out both against the injustice perpetrated by the Israelis upon the Palestinians in the territories and against the lack of any substantial move towards peace in the region as a whole. Whether deep reflection upon the matter leads one to vote for this particular referendum or to abstain from voting on it is not the issue of primary importance. What matters most is that the citizens of Cambridge enter into serious consideration of the matter and publicly express their thoughts, questions and reservations. Jonathan Springer '90, Co-chair, Harvard-Radcliffe Zionist Alliance...