Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STORY LINE women into the songs is as convoluted as the philosophical themes underlying them are abstract, but it basically emerges as follows: Kurata, a sort of interplanetary Kung-Fu champion, encounters and is challenged by a mysterious rival, Fu-Shen. Soundly trounced, the humiliated Kurata loses all that he holds most dear--his wife, his eyesight, his power and his status. To recover, he slips off to an ambiguous other world--"a physical and mental wilderness"--where he learns that by suffering and surviving he can become invulnerable. Then, having regained his strength, Kurata crosses back to the world...
Martin Olav Sabo, 38, speaker of Minnesota's house, had a similar bone to pick: "[Columnist] George Will made a very, very good point in saying that too often our problem with Government is that it is too responsive. It is a sort of Burger King responsiveness: put in your order and we will respond...
Syrian Uniforms. In the end, however, the clout of the leading moderates won out-sort of. Egypt, which is the overwhelming political power in the region, Syria, which currently has the military strength, and Saudi Arabia, which has the money, hung together to insist on ratification of the Riyadh agreement. Syria's President Assad, who until the Riyadh meeting had been at odds with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, spoke glowingly of "this good land of Egypt" and praised "my brother Sadat." Lebanese Delegate Najib Dahdah attacked Hammadi for interfering in the internal affairs of his country-ignoring the fact...
...victors will gleefully set about tying together loose ends, looking ahead to more work of an official sort, or savoring the simple satisfaction of a job well done. And it is likely that the sum of individual estimations of importance will exceed the whole. There are those who shunned the limelight and gave advice and who will now wait patiently to receive the call in January for the high honor of public service. Others wrote the speeches and heard them delivered countless times, experiencing countless vicarious pleasures with each repeated utterance. Still others commanded the organizations in each important state...
Freshman Julie Cobb describes crew as involving a "strange sort of team interaction...