Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popularity on the line. Facing % the gravest crisis of his eleven months in office, Garcia said in a televised address that paramilitary police at one prison massacred some 30 to 40 inmates who had already surrendered. All of the victims belonged to the Maoist- oriented Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas, who have been waging a terrorist campaign since...
Even with the President's support, tax reform faced a tortuous path through Congress. When the bill finally made it to the Senate Finance Committee in March, Bradley was a lonely figure, often the sole vote to close loopholes that most Senators wanted to preserve or even enlarge. As ever, Bradley was patient. "The committee had to go through an educational process," he said last week. "You either get lower rates or loopholes, and they wanted both. So before long we were about $100 billion in the hole...
...Then Disney, who had already revolutionized the movie business with his Mickey Mouse short films and feature-length cartoons, conceived a new show-biz hybrid called the theme park. No rickety roller coasters, no sucker- fleecing games of chance, no sideshow tawdriness for Uncle Walt. At his place every path would be as spotless as Formica; every doorway would be scaled to just above kid-size; every "attraction" (not ride) would be sweet enough for "guests" (not customers) of all ages to enjoy, a little. By creating an outdoor family entertainment to complement his family films, Disney might even...
...small and either break up or are burned to ash by frictional heat generated by their plunge through the atmosphere. But, explains Shoemaker, the incineration of larger asteroids is far more violent. An asteroid 80 ft. across, striking the atmosphere at 50,000 m.p.h., compresses the air in its path so much that in effect the asteroid is stopped dead in its tracks, converting kinetic energy almost instantaneously into heat, light and a powerful shock wave. That causes a tremendous explosion, in this case equivalent to the blast of a one-megaton bomb...
Roughly 70 percent of tomorrow's graduating seniors will enter into the company of educated men and women with some sort of honors or another. However, honors requirements vary depending on the department. Most laurel-seekers, though, follow the well-worn, traditional path of the written essay. In what is supposed to be a well-written, well-argued essay of anywhere from 50 to 150 pages, theses writers try to sum up their four-year sojourn inside ivy-covered Har- vard through an in depth exploration of sometopic of their choice...