Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...propose a new system. Unlike the present system, frosh would be required to rank all houses in order of preference. Then, similar to how it was done under the old system, a lottery would assign numbers secretly to each rooming group. Then, the FDO would grant each group's wishes according to its lottery number and preference list. The rooming group that received number one would receive their top choice. The rest of the rooming groups in order would then get their top choice contingent on its availability. Freshmen would then be notified of the results...
...James is an esteemed mystery novelist whose 1980 book Innocent Blood became a mainstream best seller. Her fictions often center on guilty secrets and the way the past reverberates into the present. In The Maul and the Pear Tree, James applies her narrative and analytic talents to the actual: the Ratcliffe Highway murders that took place in early-l9th century London. Although the seven killings in two merchant households were widely publicized and later inspired Thomas De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," James and her collaborator, Police Historian T.A. Critchley, found that...
...House vote. It causes us no happiness. We have no reason to applaud. The threat to Nicaragua is still there. U.S. troops are present in Honduras. The U.S. had a warship 60 miles off of Puerto Corinto. This is threatening...
Moreover, the tax-reform plans that Congress is considering would put limits on the amount of interest that people can deduct on their income-tax returns. At present, the tax system certainly eases the accumulation of debt by allowing taxpayers to subtract all interest from their income. Says Black: "I got into debt partly because the interest payments were the only tax deduction I had. I felt that if I saved money, I'd be losing money...
...short, it is business as usual around the television show We Are Proud to Present, which provides a few minutes of celebrity to the unusual or notorious. On the face of it, Pippo (Marcello Mastroianni) and Amelia (Giulietta Masina), would seem to fit right in. Back in the '40s they were a minor but prosperous dance team, imitating the high romantic style of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in provincial Italian nightclubs and variety houses. Pippo and Amelia are long retired, but their one-shot TV comeback will be a treat for old fans and an astonishment to the younger...