Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes--some seniors were videotaping the whole affair! Apparently, my classmates did not want to forget how it used to be at the old Union. What better and more natural way to remember the good old days than videotape? "Smile, Sandy! It's for posterity. Remember the time we short-sheeted the proctor...
...Sarney fell far short of his goal. Just days before Our Nature was announced, a group of 28 Latin American intellectuals, none of them Brazilian, issued a stinging open letter to Sarney accusing him of a "policy of ecocide and ethnocide" in the Amazon. The statement called for an immediate halt to "massive deforestation" and other "acts of barbarism." Among the signers were three prominent novelists: Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Colombia, Carlos Fuentes of Mexico and Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru...
...bulging wad of $20 bills to buy round-trip tickets for himself and a companion. He and his friend did not check their luggage but chose to carry it on board. And, as investigators discovered, Sokolow used an assumed name and stayed in Miami only 48 hours. In short, his actions matched those in the behavior profiles used by the Drug Enforcement Administration to spot would-be drug traffickers. When he returned to Honolulu, DEA agents arrested Sokolow and searched his bags, which contained 1,063 grams of cocaine...
...purchase of guns and other weaponry from China, a longtime Indian rival. New Delhi regards the deal as a violation of the spirit of its 39-year-old friendship treaty with Katmandu. But Nepal seems determined to stand up to India's pressure, even if that means short-term suffering and completely revising its trade relations. Says a senior Nepalese official: "We will not give an inch...
...opinion piece appearing on April 11, entitled "Flipper Joins the Navy," inadvertently contained wording from a short article in the April 9 issue of The New York Times without attribution...