Word: shortcuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...falling projectile. As he extends the trajectory, 20 students jab at their calculators, shouting the coordinates of the projectile's path. One student looks up from time to time from an Agatha Christie mystery to call out answers. A young girl interrupts the instructor. He has been applying a shortcut formula to the problem, and she points out that his solution will not work in every case...
Blair earned his seventh career shortcut to tie the Harvard career record, stopping several breakaways to preserve his whitewash...
...believe the death was an accidental drowning," said James R. Bruce, divemaster for the water division of the Metropolitan Police. "We think he was taking a shortcut across the river for reasons we do not know," Bruce said...
...executives are turning to Ikuko Atsumi, 43, a Japanese poet and feminist who has lived in the U.S. since 1981. She is president of the New England Japanese Center, which teaches often bewildered Americans how to do business with her countrymen. Says Atsumi: "To succeed in Japan, the fastest shortcut is to learn Japanese culture...
...Cliffs is marketing the ultimate shortcut for harried students: 45-min. audio cassettes billed as "companions" to twelve such standard assignments as Wuthering Heights and the Odyssey. The tapes incorporate dramatizations of key scenes and brief lectures on their meaning...