Word: procession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which, in most cases, their families have paid dearly for. To predicate the availability of tickets on the completion of the surveys suggests that tickets are some sort of reward which the College may or may not decide to dispense upon us. The arrangement, frankly, cheapens the whole process of graduation. To quote Crimson editor Martha Bridegam '89, the set-up smacks more of the operators of a Soviet department store than of a modern American university...
...water -- water whose ordinary hydrogen has been replaced with an isotope called deuterium. When they passed a current through the electrodes, the contraption produced heat. They concluded that deuterium ions had moved into the spaces between palladium atoms and fused together to form helium, giving off heat in the process...
...furniture and crammed with glassware and supplies, was parked in the trees next to a friend's lake-side shack. "They skied and chased girls while I cooked," Bernard remembers. This was no home- kitchen production with towels stuffed under the door to contain the pungent odor of the process. This was a major manufacturing operation disguised as a beach party, using black-market chemicals to produce 100 lbs. of crank, presold to a buyer in Grants Pass, Ore., for $15,000 a lb. Almost a million net, even before the powder hit the streets, sold by the gram...
...forcing Congress to make the fiscally necessary but unpopular cuts in domestic programs. "This is not a heroic agreement," said House Speaker Jim Wright, putting it mildly. And Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell cautioned, "No one should be deluded into thinking that this is the end of a process...
...billion in wage and benefits cuts, spread over five years, in exchange for a 30% ownership stake in the new company. But the unions had a condition too. They demanded that Texas Air chief Frank Lorenzo step aside immediately so that a court- appointed trustee could supervise the reorganization process. Frank Carlucci, the former Secretary of Defense, had flown to New York City expecting to be appointed to the post...