Word: situs
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...HARD TO IMAGINE a less likely situs for controversy over who is a "real" Jew and who is a "pretender" than the Eighth Congressional District of Massachusetts. But Martin Peretz, owner of the New Republic and sometime instructor at Harvard, has managed to interject this arcane theological issue into the politics of Harvard's home district...
...Lewis resides exclusively at the opposite end of the front section); Herb Swartz's story is titled "A Man Who Loves Words Too Much to Take Them Lightly." Herb Swartz loves words too much ever to cross out any, hence he produces sentences like: "Thus, Lewis's Cambridge/Boston situs is unique to The Times, and given that it is America's newspaper of record it is a more startling uniqueness of Cambridge/Boston, one which boasts a local scrivener whose words are read the world over." If the Express--which rejects pictures in favor of text--is to survive, it needs...
Unless your cover girl with the backache [July 14] actually has situs inversus, then I fear your medical-graphics editor may suffer from dyslexia. The X ray on the cover is printed backward...
...back the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and to deny black lung benefits to coal miners, food stamps to the families of strikers and extension of the minimum wage law to nearly a million retail and service employees. Labor also hasn't profitted from his votes against common-situs picketing and labor law reform...
...gave him an average approval rating of 88 per cent. His views have moderated since then, but even in the past three years, the AFL-CIO's committee on political education gave him an average rating of only 32 per cent, in part for his vote against the Common Situs bill, a measure that would have allowed unions with a greivance against one contractor to picket all the contractors on the same construction site. There aren't many unions in northwestern Illinois...