Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These programs include the Program on the Profession, a study begun last year to investigate the nature and direction of the legal profession; a year-old series of teaching workshops; the expansion of clinical positions at the Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, an experimental section for first-year law students; and computer learning among others...
...West, a 109-page compendium of the old warrior's world views. He is publishing the small volume privately to hurry it into the hands of the leaders and geopolitical scholars who have listened to him in decades past. Page proofs in black folders sent out in plain brown envelops reached the press a few days ago with a small note containing this poignant line: "If it wasn't so long, I guess you might call this my Farewell Address...
...What is plain in this arresting little volume is that Nixon, were he President, would take the U.S. and its allies on a global crusade to sell the glories of our system to the Third World, to carry a big stick against bullies, to tone down our morality lectures to allies and instead listen more to their problems, to make the search for real peace an exciting competition. "Today," writes Nixon, "the only kind of revolution on the market is too often the kind the Soviets and their surrogates sell. Tomorrow, we can put them out of business...
...ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif, to the orbiting crew. Reagan, whose budget and hiring policies have drawn sharp criticism from black leaders, included a special message of congratulations for Bluford. Said the President: "You, I think, are paving the way for many others, and you are making it plain we are in an era of brotherhood here in our land." It was Commander Truly who thanked Reagan on behalf of all the crew members. Said Truly: "We appreciate your taking time to call us, and we're very pleased and proud to be here...
...album's two most intense tracks, Cut It Away and Say It Isn 't True, are almost as simple as plain chant. Cut It Away ("Somebody cut away this desperate heart/ Cut it away before it tears my whole life apart") is a racked-up love song about the dissolution of Browne's marriage to onetime Model Lynne Sweeney. Say It Isn't True is a stone-simple antiwar song, throbbing with a synthesizer line that pulses away insistently like the red warning light flashing on a war-room console. Browne makes no apologies...