Word: seene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drive- through church. As a former resident puts it, "In L.A. the first question is not What do you do? but What do you drive?" Will Angelenos really trade their Ferraris for car pools and their fuel-injected Chevy V-8s for electric roadsters? That remains to be seen. "We're for cleaner air, for damn sure," says Robert Harnar, a public relations executive at Ford. "But the old adage is that people in L.A. want buses and mass transit so all these other guys will get off the freeway...
...eating habits make it hard to be careful. Many Americans rely on restaurant or supermarket salad bars -- places where the food is left to sit for many hours and handled by many people, often in slovenly fashion. Notes dietitian Bettye Nowlin of the American Dietetic Association: "I've seen people at take-out stores who don't seem to have a problem sneezing on food and then offering...
...wielding an imitation AK-47 assault rifle awakened the public to the danger of these paramilitary weapons. Police have complained of being outgunned by drug dealers with Uzis and AR- 15s. Urban emergency rooms have started resembling MASH units, with doctors treating the sort of huge gunshot wounds once seen only in combat. The Second Amendment notwithstanding, more and more Americans have decided that something must be done to stem the nation's internal arms race...
...Anti-Harvard to be Pro-Activist: Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III was seen singing "Lift Up Your Voice and Sing," a Black spiritual, with the students in front of University Hall at the Black Students Association rally held on Tuesday to protest police harrassment of minorities on campus...
...record numbers of Yardlings applied to the three Quad houses as their home for 1989-90, masters and College administrators have good reason to heave sighs of contentment. Cabot, North and Currier Houses--which formerly were seen as exiled territories from undergraduate life that centered between the Charles River and Mass. Ave.--have discovered an unparalleled resurgence that indicates a change in undergraduate life...