Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instance, is 30 times higher than that on heating oil. By forging the identifying document of a shipment -or, in some cases, switching the oil-refiners and distributors could pocket the illegal tax benefits. Then, said investigators, they would bribe Guardia officers, politicians, inspectors and truckers to keep quiet...
...amid a redwood forest high above California's Monterey Bay (students quickly dubbed the resort-like U.C.S.C. "Uncle Charley's Summer Camp"). Another was Santa Cruz's remarkable educational mission. Clark Kerr, longtime president of California's statewide university, had conceived Santa Cruz as a quiet, human-sized island within the state's gargantuan system. It was built around a collection of intimate colleges for students and faculty, as at Oxford. To Kerr's unexceptionable dream were added other more radical ideas in tune with the rebellious '60s. One campus house, Kresge College...
Sophomore John Francis stepped in at center after a slew of pre-season injuries thinned the Crimson corps. Quiet Dave Anderson, owner of what insiders say is the team's driest sense of humor, has performed steadily and scored a touchdown against Holy Cross after a fumble near the Crusader goal line...
Meanwhile, in the quiet seclusion of the Union rotunda, four freshmen spoke in conspiratorial tones of their plans for the evening. "We've decided that the philosophy Yale represents is a threat to the free world," said one, who asked not to be identified. "And so we're driving down to Yale tonight to cover the campus with giant H's," he added...
Kirsten Skrinde as lusty, honest Rita and Eliza Gagnon as imaginative, quiet Carter carry off their roles with greatest success. Skrinde's Rita is the most consistently funny character, but there is a bite to her humor, as in her account of a job interview: after tea and charming conversation, the interviewer asked her if she had experience with a xerox machine--"yes," she said, "and I've tasted my menstrual blood, too." Gagnon's brooding Carter is so contained at the start of the play that when she finally erupts, announcing her goal "to put Wittgenstein on film...