Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These scenarios are confusing. They really did not shed any light on the subject. No one really knows how the selection process will be handled until tonight's two games are done and over with...
...news is that the press is at last beginning to shed its romantic image of itself as the lone public defender pure of heart, pursuing all those other rascals. To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near monopolies. It often seems as unreachable as the Government or any big corporation. The public might agree that the press, while making money, often does good (though not always in a lovable manner). It peeks behind doors...
...Ghaida, whose parents are Palestinian, said she had hoped the recent uprisings would shed light on thePalestinian dilemma as "a real problem that has tobe confronted now," rather than a historicaldispute. She added that she had hoped the riotswould inspire various campus groups to discuss theissues, but instead, she said they will now "onlybe sending out fact sheets at each other...
...initially consider too much." Forbidden was all nonschool material, including books, magazines, newspapers, TV and radio. The course, Galitz said, was aimed at encouraging concentration and deep thought. Each student pinned two rows of "ribbons of challenge" on the white tunic worn during the course, a ribbon to be shed only when a crucial test had been passed.When all the ribbons were gone, a student graduated...
...bobsled seem to attract the largest number of Olympic eccentrics, many of whom have found the open-minded governing bylaw about nationality conveniently accommodating. For New Yorker George Tucker, a physicist born in Puerto Rico, Calgary actually offered a chance to improve. At his Sarajevo debut in 1984, Tucker shed alarming amounts of skin bouncing off the wall. "I was the luger who dripped blood," Tucker says. The next ( summer he recruited Muniz, who had schemed to represent Puerto Rico as a kayaker. "Misery loves company," explains Muniz. Argentine Ruben Gonzalez, a chemist, claims yet another distinction. "At any level...