Word: rapides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Graham, who had emerged as a leader in the Black community in the years preceding the strike, had spent her time fighting many of the same issues the students were protesting--the Vietnam war, Harvard's rapid expansion into the predominantly, Black Riverside neighborhood and the city's lack of a rent control...
...objectives is to break the city's addiction to the internal-combustion engine. First, it imposes stricter emission standards and forces employers to encourage car pooling. Then it calls for conversion of most vehicles to methanol and other cleaner burning fuels. Finally, in a Buck Rogers phase that assumes rapid advances in fuel-cell technology, it calls for a massive switch to cars, buses and trucks powered by electricity...
Athletes, of course, are hardly the only victims of a rapid and rapacious desire to bring icons down to size. Mike Tyson is merely learning lessons about the price of celebrity that Liz Taylor and Mick Jagger were forced to learn many years ago. Yet sportsmen belong to more innocent kids than do movie stars or musicians, and to adults who wish to be more innocent kids again. Tyson, moreover, appears in the ring for only a few minutes every few months, and Cabinet members work mostly behind closed doors; both are ultimately judged by professionals and peers. Boggs' skills...
...Klerk, 53, was elected to succeed him on the same day, puzzled party chiefs finally concluded that Botha was signaling his intention to retire. So they were shocked once again by Botha's televised announcement that he would be returning to work on March 15. In a rapid series of meetings, the Nationalists resolved that the positions of party leader and State President should be held by the same man and that they had full confidence in De Klerk. Their real message was clear enough: Botha should resign in De Klerk's favor. With his usual contempt for the subordinates...
...Literature and English theses are due next, on March 15, followed closely by History and Science, due on March 17. Other department deadlines will then approach in rapid succession. For some seniors, there is little time to spare...