Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another key vote, the council urged the College to retain the present system of assigning houses, which allows students a limited amount of choice through the use of a lottery. The masters have proposed that 25 percent of the spots in some houses be assigned randomly to improve residential diversity...
Those first two meetings also present a problembecause a number of issues are presented in a waythat does not encourage dialogue. For example,students are usually told that they will bepunished if they harass someone because of his orher sexual orientation. But students may notrealize that they can talk to their proctor aboutquestions of sexual identity...
...diffusing its rebel yell, but only when it expresses honest emotion and reminds us of the reason the artists got into making music in the first place. At the same time, no one ought to be trapped in a past that no longer relates to their very cushy present--Bruce should once and for all quit with the blue--collar crap-but it seems that when sincerity is real, the apple should never fall far from it's original tree of inspiration...
Even if the present court is not willing to overturn Roe, time may be on the side of the pro-lifers. Three of the Justices who voted with the proabortion majority in Roe are now in their 80s. Antiabortion forces are betting that George Bush will continue Ronald Reagan's policy of appointing Justices who are sympathetic to conservative causes...
...dream hunters, who could invade and move freely through the night thoughts of others. Unfortunately, these Khazars began to come to grief when their kaghan (ruler) decided in the eighth or ninth century that they should convert to Christianity, Judaism or Islam. Representatives of these religions were invited to present their cases before the kaghan. The debate, known as the Khazar polemic, led to controversy. Conflicting records awarded victory to each of the contending faiths; the Khazars, meanwhile, vanished. In 1691 the surviving documents of this dispute were published as a dictionary, in an edition of 500 copies...