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...administration did react to new student groups by forming committees to respond to them. The minority student report spurred administrators to appoint a panel to bolster recruitment efforts. The University also formed a committee to address gay rights issues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hitting Home | 9/14/1988 | See Source »

...administration did react to new student groups--by forming committees to respond to them. The minority student report spurred administrators to appoint a panel to bolster recruitment efforts. The University also formed a committee to address gay rights issues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hitting Home | 9/11/1988 | See Source »

...Adam is disturbed by the situation, he doesn't react. Nor does he question or even talk to Huck about the various homosexual men with whom he spends the night in their apartment. These are the 1980s, the book seems to say, the era of acceptance...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: A Broken-Down Projector | 8/12/1988 | See Source »

...lucky ones, able to react quickly; most of those who were sleeping or relaxing in their cabins had no chance at all. Rigger Tony Sinnett, 34, watched in horror from a rescue craft after his escape. "It was as if the platform had been hit by an atom bomb," he said. He recalled seeing * half a dozen men on the platform's helicopter deck "who seemed to be waving. But then the deck keeled over, and the men disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disaster Screaming Like a Banshee | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...error by limiting the plane's response to dangerous commands. But some pilots believe such safeguards could be a handicap in emergency situations that require sudden maneuvers, like those necessary to avoid a collision. Says John Mazor, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association: "A computer can only react to the possibilities that have been programmed into it." Some experts speculate that because the Airbus jet's wheels were down as it swooped over the air show, the computers might have been tricked into thinking the plane was landing. Airbus officials discount this possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airbus on The Spot | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

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