Word: rand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approach him or what to say. People ask how he is, with the concern they would show for a patient who is in the hospital. "Donald" is discussed in the third person, sometimes even in the past tense. A friend's affectionate newspaper piece about him in the Rand Daily Mail read more like an obituary than a feature. a man There is appear something comfortable and malevolent in useless, a unable system to that affect his makes own fate The new acting editor will soon move into his of fice Wendy will surely become the busy, active member...
...fact many of the alienated youths who join radical underground groups in Western democracies lack any coherent ideological or political goals. Violence is the attraction?the end, not the means. Notes Brian Jenkins, an associate director at Rand Corp.: "The act of terror itself is an ideology." Harvey Schlossberg, a psychiatrist who trains the New York City Police Department's anti-terrorist unit, contends that many urban terrorists are compensating for inadequate personalities. "If they cry and stamp their feet, no one pays attention. But by taking hostages, in a matter of minutes the whole world is watching. This helps...
Many experts draw a careful line between the ordinary criminal and the terrorist. Explains Rand's Jenkins: "Terrorism is violence aimed at [those] people watching. Fear is the intended effect, not the byproduct. That distinguishes terrorist tactics from muggings and other forms of violent crime...
Libby Pierpont, also playing singles, bested Sue Rand of the University of Rhode Island 6-3, 6-3, and Grace MacDonald of Bates, 2 and love, before falling in the third round. Battling on day for the first time all year, Pierpont lost to a woman she had previously defeated in the Greater Boston Championships, Tufts' Wendy Shahon...
World attention is now focused on the frightening array of questions surrounding the circumstances of Biko's death. The most recent reports in one of South Africa's largest daily newspapers, The Rand Daily Mail, based on interviews with six doctors who examined Biko a week before his death, suggest he showed no medical signs of being on a hunger strike-a strike that the Vorster government has claimed was the cause of Biko's death. The Mail also indicated that Biko had already suffered extensive brain damage, possibly as the result of severe beatings on the head...