Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore pole vaulter Mike Short, in his second collegiate meet, set a new personal best and placed third by clearing 14 feet. Short's vault was a full foot better than he was able to vault a week...
...Democratic candidates, who all back the INF pact, have been quick to capitalize on the Republican dissension. Albert Gore went after the G.O.P. in the opening minutes of last week's debate. "It's nothing short of appalling," he declared, "that five of six Republican candidates refuse to support the new arms-control agreement." The next night Michael Dukakis painted the treaty opponents as captives of ultraconservative ideologues: "Do we need any further proof that the radical right has a stranglehold on the Republican Party?" As conservatives snipe at the White House, Democrats can say with a smile that they...
...said that often the Food and Drug Administration allows the drug companies to take short cuts on their testing, because its standard of "reasonable certainty of no harm" is too vague...
...Kennedy School of Government was the only school to run up a deficit, falling $342,000 short on its $25.5 million budget...
...truth, what this university really needs to install in house laundry rooms are change machines. For all the use to which they can be put, condoms do not come in very handy when launderers are a quarter short and dryers decide to take two cycles to dry clothes instead of one. That aside, is it really necessary to stockpile, survivalist-like, condoms in house basements across campus? The answer is no. Questions of taste and aesthetics aside, a proliferation of prophylactics across campus can only heighten AIDS hysteria while doing little to combat spread of the disease...