Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most fought-for stars are women and minorities because they are in short supply. In the University of California system, for example, only 1.7% of tenured faculty are black, 2.5% Hispanic and 10.1% female. Says Duncan Rice, N.Y.U.'s dean of the faculty of arts and sciences: "My department chairmen are aware that they had better never miss an opportunity to bring on a highly qualified minority or woman." Black Historian David L. Lewis, recruited to Rutgers, was courted by schools in the South, Midwest and East before he quit the University of California at San Diego for a heavy...
...their attention and stunts their development. Use it often enough in your teen years, and you get to adulthood having lost crucial months, years, of emotional and intellectual growth. Second, marijuana is a gateway to harder drugs, the stuff like cocaine and heroin that can destroy people in very short order...
...Guatemala to about 2.5 million acres of rich timberland in Washington, Oregon and Louisiana. And because he liquidated most of his French and British holdings in recent months -- "I've got my bundle," he likes to say in these postcrash days -- he has $300 million in cash and short-term securities. That success not only makes him a potentially major predator in today's markets but gives him the freedom to lecture the world on his views...
...pregnant, but just before the birth, she suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Shortly after the baby was delivered by Cesarean section, she died, at 18, having known Jimmy less than a year. The grief-stricken widower went on a short trip to West Africa, and when he returned, he found that the Patino family had kidnaped the baby, claiming Jimmy was an unfit father. He went to court and got the baby back...
...been all of the evils he describes. But Washington is something more: it is history stretching back two centuries, an accumulation of the experience of politicians, lobbyists, journalists, tycoons, labor skates, hustlers, social climbers, clergy, judges, tourists, professors, bureaucrats and any number of crooks, white collar and otherwise. In short, it has served as America come to the front office to complain. Washington is bigger, lustier and louder than ever, and it is still the final point of impact on the presidency...