Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Phoenix, brown and flat, grows larger below. There is money to be raised. When the door of the plane opens, Mondale strides down the ramp smiling at anything that moves...
...press to shuffle out of the 727 ("How many more?" he croaked as the reporters filed by), so that the TV news cameramen could get a clear shot of him disembarking. For the 100 supporters gathered on the tarmac, he recited his routine speech, then climbed back up the ramp. On to Philadelphia for a fourth runway press conference ("Vice President Mondale, what is your favorite color?"), and then to Washington for a fund-raising dinner...
...Around a ramp of snow trucked down from the hills, the flame was delivered to Figure Skater Sanda Dubravcic. She ran the sparkler up a great white staircase, and the Olympic wok ignited instantly with a roar. But the highlight for some was the final duty of Lake Placid, the hosts of 1980, represented by Mayor Robert Peacock and the Norwood, N.Y., fire-department band. Appearing incomplete without a Dalmatian trotting alongside, the firemen oom-pah-pahed along the Bosnian Main Street, performing When the Saints Go Marching In, America the Beautiful and Baby Face...
...these are values which are central to education. Recent years have seen an increased awareness of the need for a deeper understanding of the subtle institutional barriers to success that exist for minorities in a university setting. Be it a ramp for someone in a wheelchair or the introduction of courses which emphasize the experiences of women and minorities, Harvard has made halting steps towards opening itself up. But by providing more than $60,000 for ROTC. Harvard will be taking part in a program that is closed to a significant part of the community. It will cast into doubt...
...being accomplished. While much remains to be done, everything is essentially ready. For the past two years, thousands of workers have been blasting, digging and building heartily. The merriest have been 5,000 teenagers, sweating ten hours a day just a few weeks ago, leveling the ski-jump ramp, laying carpet in the athletes' quarters, working literally for a song at the end of the shift...