Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's political and religious factions are scheduled to gather this week for the first meeting of the conference on national reconciliation that was called for in the Sept. 26 cease-fire agreement. Even so, there were indications that Lebanon's guns would not be silent for long. The squabbling groups apparently had not yet agreed on where to hold the meeting. More ominous, cease-fire No. 179 was being violated with more and more impunity...
That, apparently, was too much for hitherto silent Keays. In a surprise statement in Friday's London Times, she gave her side of the story and abruptly demolished what remained of Parkinson's political career. "My baby was conceived in a longstanding, loving relationship which I had allowed to continue because I believed in our eventual marriage," Keays declared. "It has been suggested that Mr. Parkinson only asked me to marry him after I became pregnant, when in fact he first did so in 1979. In May, when I knew of my pregnancy, Mr. Parkinson decided...
...somewhere is using crib notes. Let uninvolved, paid proctors assume those responsibilities, as they do at Harvard. This is not to say that students necessarily should overlook clear violations. But they should not be bound by rules like Princeton's that would punish them if they were to remain silent...
Video-game enthusiasts contend that the industry is in its infancy, like Hollywood in the silent-movie era. Says Clive Smith, an electronics-industry expert at the Yankee Group consulting firm in Boston: "The previous generation of video games was primitive compared with what is coming. This is not a fad. Interactive electronic entertainment is here to stay." Smith thinks that the wizards behind the special effects in today's movies could become the star video-game designers of tomorrow. If that happens, he says, the games will be "very, very lucrative...
...public sentiment to raise it." By abandoning his principles in search of a few votes from the "locket up" constituency, Ducks is betraying the college students who he has asked to aid him. It is unfair to ask students to be cooperative with his program when he is staying silent on a measure that severely limits their rights without improving the public safety. Figures convincingly show that raising the age to 21 will not substantially cut the number of drunk driving deaths. To the contrary, it will increase the number of fatalities because students will drive across state lines...