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Word: pilings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is nothing in place of the trains yet. "While moving across campus yesterdays, Jewett lost his BayBanks card and has barely had time to get settled. But you can be sure that within a few months, the pile of papers will be just as high in the middle of Harvard Yard as it was in the middle of Radcliffe Yard...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: University Enters New Era as Three Deans Assume Positions | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

...things pile up and don't finish them of completely," says the recently named dean. He claims that if he could borrow one quality from his predecessor, it would be Fox's persistent efficiency. He praises the 6-ft., 9-in. dean for his "efficient management of a whole host of problems...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: University Enters New Era as Three Deans Assume Positions | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

Though many make needed money from their music, most say that the amount they make has little to do with how well they feel they have been accepted. "I'll come home and there you have a pile of money in your case. It doesn't click," says Luke Hunsberger. "It's hard to connect the money with people's appreciation...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Popping Strings For Profit | 7/23/1985 | See Source »

...first response to a hostage crisis by a nation unwilling to pile death + on death must be negotiation. Though Reagan has vowed never to make a deal with the terrorists, an American intelligence expert on Lebanon predicts that the U.S. may have no choice but to acquiesce in one. It would involve the release of 776 Lebanese, mostly Shi'ites, who were taken to a prison in Israel by Israeli occupation forces withdrawing from southern Lebanon. The trick would be to avoid making an exchange look like capitulation to terrorism -- for example, by securing the release of the American hostages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Attack on Civilization | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...living deep in a heavily guarded jungle compound surrounded by bodyguards and police dogs. Frankly, a lot of the material we have found is very dreary." Thus ended one of the most dramatic searches of the century, not in a blaze of justice but, quietly, in a pile of bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches Absolutely No Doubt | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

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