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...harboring the impression that the Time & Life Building serves as this self-confessed workaholic's home away from home. We would like to quash that persistent rumor once and for all. We really would. It's just that we have never seen Chua-Eoan's apartment, and some of us are beginning to suspect that he may never have laid eyes on it either. Howard has been sighted on every floor of the building except the lobby. That leaves one inescapable conclusion. "When Howard talks about commuting," says International senior editor John Saar, "he means getting on the elevator...
...program and--at least professedly--in its hiring policies. We have the tools to use our diversity as an intellectual community should. Our articulate, outspoken student body churns out letters and articles prolifically and engages in myriafd dining hall table conversations. Our administration, unlike Penn's, is reluctant to quash free expression, no matter who construes it as offensive...
...Employees of the University Health Services clinical laboratory say their UHS human resources coordinator, Karen G. Fischer, has long worked with laboratory manager Barbara Skane to quash employee complaints about everything from overtime to alleged improper packaging of lab specimens...
...Senator Paul Simon's Washington office logged 1,000 calls. "In 18 years in the Senate," said Senator Patrick Leahy, "I had never seen so many telephone calls, spontaneously, in such a short period." Senator Nancy Kassebaum and Representative Marge Roukema lobbied Republican colleagues on the Judiciary Committee to quash the nomination...
Like many a superstar before him, Barney is learning that fame can be a heavy burden. A legal team is scrambling to quash a rash of Barney impostors. And grandiose plans to market and export the creature may, through overexposure, make him a victim of his own success. Still, not a bad fate, given what happened to the rest of the world's dinosaurs...