Word: reverting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world cannot stare too long at an abyss; the abyss stares back, or simply grows boring. We revert to our customary sins. We do our violent business as usual. Fish gotta swim. War is flourishing-between Iran and Iraq, between Israel and the P.L.O., in Cambodia and Afghanistan. Since the bomb fell on Hiroshima, mankind has fought roughly 125 wars (of one sort or another), including the longest one in U.S. history. But all of these collisions fell short of the nuclear. They thereby seemed weirdly permissible: as sins, venial, not mortal. They were not, after all, the utmost...
...City Council meetings apparently--make for unanimous decisions. At an 8 a.m. meeting Tuesday morning the council decided without opposition to allow city residents the chance to over-ride Prop 2 1/2 with a mid-April referendum. Without a fiscal crisis to rally around, however, the council will probably revert to its normally split voting at next Monday night's regular session...
...Place. Last week's votes of approval leave only one more obstacle facing the commercial housing and office complex--a Corporation vote on the plan, scheduled for Monday. If the Corporation rejects the University Place proposal, the property--now held by Harvard and used as a parking lot--would revert to its original owner...
Harvard bought the property--the largest remaining parcel of undeveloped land in the Square--from Louis DiGiovanni in February 1980 for $4 million. But a private agreement between DiGiovanni and the University stipulates that the land would revert to DiGiovanni in the event that a satisfactory design had not been reached by January 24, University officials said...
...eating problem that has caused her weight to fluctuate by as many as 60 pounds in one year. Although attractive and healthy looking now, Janice lives from meal to meal in constant fear that she will either go haywire and overeat, or that she will stop eating altogether and revert to the 96-pound anorexic girl she was six years...