Word: preparedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After stints at Yale drama school and Stanford, McGuane realized he had reached a "point of no return" in his literary vocation. "I was in my late 20s," he says. "I had prepared myself for no other career. What was I to do? Start selling lighting fixtures and hope to...
The report was prepared by the majority staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. The panel is investigating health research programs of the Energy Department, which owns the 17 major facilities that design and make nuclear arms.
Miami was prepared for the worst as the trial of police officer William Lozano, charged with killing two unarmed black men last January, came to an end last week. Their deaths sparked three days of burning and looting. Twice before in the 1980s, riots followed the acquittals of white or...
As the activists' customized salvage tug Greenpeace shadowed the sub, the support ships Kittiwake and Grasp repeatedly rammed the vessel, punching a hole in her side just above the waterline. Meanwhile, sailors trained fire hoses on the Greenpeace, flooding her engines, while Navy SEAL frogmen cut the fuel lines of...
Non-ordered choice is clearly not the solution. Statistics prepared by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, indicated that the proposal might take the edge off of some stereotypes, but Whitla relied on data from last year's lottery in which first-year students...