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...turned out that we were so much better skill-wise that it [Northeastern's ruggedness] played no factor," senior Trina Burnham said...

Author: By John Zilcosky, | Title: Huskies Roll Over and Play Dead As Laxwomen Walk to 12-0 Win | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Should the Government try to set similar pay scales for jobs that, while dissimilar, ostensibly require equivalent skill, responsibility and effort? Next week the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is expected to approve a draft report that calls the concept, known as comparable worth, "profoundly and irretrievably flawed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Causes: Examining Comparable Worth | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...fury of a victim can exceed his skill at handling a weapon defensively. A Kansas City couple, Thomas Hill, 76, and his wife Lillian, 72, were surprised by an intruder in their home. Thomas picked up a pistol off a table and fired. The intruder grabbed the gun. Thomas pulled a second pistol out of his pocket and tried six shots. The robber seized that gun too. Lillian emerged from the kitchen and squeezed off three more shots. Not one bullet hit the invader, who escaped with all three guns. As he fled, he avoided three more rifle shots from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up in Arms Over Crime | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...rues the last that he didn't begin early enough, first discovering painting in an art class in his sophomore year of high school in Sweden, where he was born. Before, he had been good at drawing; but, he adds, "that was the sort of skill you weren't supposed to be good at unless you drew boats and armies...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: An Ahrtist at Harvard | 4/6/1985 | See Source »

...some domesticated chills: Laura and her hidden zealotry may be a menace to Anne or the children. Can the babysitter be stopped before she does something awful? In fact, violence does occur near the end, but the real focus of the novel has long since shifted elsewhere. With considerable skill and subtlety, Gordon has constructed a series of intertwined meditations questioning the nature and even the value of motherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meditations on Motherhood Men and Angels | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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