Word: rest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students forced school officials to cancel classes Monday, when they blocked all entrances to the campus and prevented faculty and staff from entering. Throughout the rest of the week, students boycotted classes, and on Wednesday, more than half the school's faculty voted to back the protesters...
Harvard put this game to rest by the end of the second period. Donato led off with a pair of first-period goals--both on assists from Peter Ciavaglia and C.J. Young--and Ed Presz, Armstrong and Mike Vukonich added goals in the second period...
...purchases the suspicious garment and whisks it to a laboratory where it is sectioned, stripped of dyes and studied under microscopes. Spilhaus is searching for counterfeit cashmere, and all too often he finds it. A garment labeled 70% cashmere/30% wool frequently contains no more than 5% cashmere. The rest? Recycled rags, human hair, acrylic, asbestos, rabbit fur and even newspaper...
...index, which changed from a .2% drop to a .3% increase. Moreover, the unemployment rate fell from 5.8% in January to 5.7% in February, the lowest level since July 1979. While retail sales were sluggish in February, most economists expect rising exports to keep the economy going through the rest of the year at least...
...lore of the time, as well as in the estimated 300 books since written about the war, one group of soldiers has often been singled out as having failed more abysmally than the rest: the then segregated black units. Tales persist of black troops breaking ranks before the enemy, throwing down their weapons and fleeing, while valorous white officers tried to stem the retreat. That view, argues Blair, is inaccurate and blatantly racist. It arose, he suggests, from disgruntled and sometimes incompetent white officers, and was uncritically absorbed by Army historians. For example, Blair cites the scathing official account...