Word: slews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...centralized rating concept as too rigid. They support instead one of several devices currently in development that enable parents to make their own choices of which shows to block out. fcc chairman Reed Hundt, a V-chip booster, contends that it will be only "the first of a slew of products. I predict remote-control devices with selection programs. There will be a variety of ways to receive...
Students are often on a tight time budget in which socializing is unlikely to be prioritized among the slew of intellectual and extracurricular pursuits, he says...
...sure enough the dining hall administrators have responded to the call for variety with Chinese night and Mexican night and a whole slew of other adventurous nights of "interestingly different" foods. Even though I normally do not participate in the eating of these meals (I have tried but they are maybe a little too adventurous for me), I certainly admire the creativity of the dining hall administrators...
...other cities, including Shanghai, where more police have been deployed. An anticorruption drive by Jiang has resulted in a rash of arrests--47,560 in 1995--and each week the official media report the incarceration or execution of several corrupt bureaucrats or businessmen. Jiang has also approved a slew of nationalistic campaigns, including a drive against the recent fad of putting miniature foreign flags on the dashboards of private cars and taxis, a practice now officially banned in Shanghai and Dalian. ''To place a foreign flag in a place where a Chinese national flag should be placed will not only...
...Harvard's women's basketball team has proved anything but predictable this season. Harvard has shown signs of brilliance against schools like Boston University and Boston College, and the team has bested a slew of blowout victims from Army to Northeastern. Yet the season has been peppered with lackluster performances against Arizona, Duquesne and Rhode Island among others...