Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preparations started some ten days earlier when Executive agencies were asked to provide background information. Fitzwater's aides then spent two days boiling down a foot-high stack of material into a 31-page summary for the President to read over the weekend at Camp David. Only after Reagan and Nancy returned and said that he was comfortable with the material was the final decision made to schedule the conference...
...letter from the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee in yesterday's edition of The Crimson contained a typographical error. A sentence in the third to last paragraph should have read, "Instead, the University appears to have acted according to a predetermined plan which left no scope for any legitimate and peaceful act of civil disobedience which would not have prevented the speech from continuing...
Snowball: Children of A Lesser God. I'll read one of Helen Keller's waffle irons if this picture wins...
...LAST time I wrote a column on words and terms I didn't know the meaning of, I got a scathing letter explaining the meanings of these words. Those of you who read the letter may have found the definitions even more confusing than the terms themselves. Me too. Anxious to receive more hate mail, and perhaps some more lucid definitions of the terms that confuse me, I present some more terms whose meaning I am unable to comprehend...
...jury will have to decide not only the question of Monsanto's guilt but the amount of damages to be assessed. If Monsanto loses, it will almost certainly appeal, in which case an appellate judge might take the better part of a year just to read over the record. Attorney friends have told Carr, who is 60, that he may be senile before he sees a dollar of Monsanto money. "Maybe," he replies, "I was senile when I agreed to get into this fight in the first place...