Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World War II on them. Under the direction of Chief Cartographer John B. Garver Jr., the map department entered the computer age in 1983 with the acquisition of a specialized computer that enables mapmakers to modify roads, rivers, borders and country names without wholesale revision. Subscribers now receive six poster-size maps a year, each produced by the society's 130 researchers and mapmakers at a cost of $1 million...
Every May 4, 1000 people come to the parking lot to commemorate the deaths. But during the rest of the year, activity in the lot reflects the concerns of the average student. The windows in the dormitory bordering on the parking lot showcase a U2 Pride poster and an "are you horny?" bumper sticker...
...Yukon fishing village one day last summer and proceeded to make the catch of his life. In the Yukon Motel restaurant in Teslin (pop. 350), the ruddy, barrel-chested Mountie eyed a 300-lb. stranger sitting nearby. He thought he might have seen the man before -- on a wanted poster. The stranger, it turned out, was Charles McVey, a particularly notorious smuggler sought by U.S. Customs officials for illegally exporting millions of dollars' worth of computer equipment to Moscow. The sharp-eyed Corporal Fudge got his man, and is now a decorated hero. McVey sits in a Vancouver jail awaiting...
Called "Cheap Lit.," the one-page magazine is distributed on campus twice a month, when several designated students make about 200 copies of this unique literary form and plaster it all over campus. Although the contents require more than a few seconds' perusal, the poster form does aim at immediate accessibility...
Caleb Crane '89, the Advocate's fiction editor, came up with the poster idea last year. After he and some friends collaborated on a trial run in the spring, they decided to put out Cheap Lit. regularly during the next school year...