Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will accept if the Board of Trustees approves her, but decisions are never final until the Board takes its oath," Horner said last night. Horner--Radcliffe's youngest president when she was selected in 1972--said the 53-year-old Michigan administrator has worked with her in the past and is unlikely to face opposition from the Board...
Wilson, a chemist who has been at Michigan for the past four years, has served on several national research committees, including the National Science Foundation advisory committee, where she worked with Horner...
...Seattle the economy is already sparking along. Area joblessness is 4.6%, a 20-year low; major employer Boeing is operating at an all-time high percentage of capacity; and hundreds of thousands of new residents have moved in during the past few years. Downtown, a state convention center, a shopping mall and underground bus tunnels are under construction. The area has been so torn up that some residents refer to it as "little Beirut...
...cities traded economies, the results might have been reversed. Denver, once riding high on an energy boom, has been slumping for the past four years. Metropolitan-area employment has shrunk by 55,000 jobs, to a present total of 939,100, and real estate values have shriveled; the average Denver house is priced at $79,900, down 15% in two years. Last year more people moved out of the area than moved in for the first time since the Depression years of the 1930s. In that climate, voters bought the promises of Romer and Pena that a new airport would...
...world in the past few years has, in fact, profoundly changed. In Tiananmen Square last week, many of the demonstrators' signs were written in English. The students knew they were enacting a planetary drama, that their words and images in that one place would powder into electrons and then recombine on millions of little screens in other places, other minds, around the world...