Word: southern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's lacrosse team defended its Yankee pride and its undefeated record yesterday against 10th-ranked Loyola, the highly-touted Southern team, in a 12-6 pounding at Soldiers Field...
After getting assurances that he would be the sole author of the report, Koop took to the task with an open mind, consulting Government experts like the National Institutes of Health's Dr. Anthony Fauci and inviting more than 25 groups, from gay activists to the Southern Baptist Convention, to his office. He wrote 26 drafts at the stand-up desk in the basement of the brick house he rents on the campus of the NIH. He numbered the copies he took to a meeting at the White House and collected all of them to prevent leaks. The next...
...takes all the energy they have just to remain qualified for their jobs, much less have time to acquire new skills that might allow for promotion. "There is no question that the half-life of most job skills is dropping all the time," says Edward Lawler, University of Southern California professor of management. "People are falling by the wayside, just as companies...
...been a scramble to increase production. Here in the heartland of the meth outlaws, a territory beginning roughly at the southerly edges of the great Los Angeles metropolitan sprawl, anarchy has replaced the discipline of a monopoly maintained for decades under the mailed fist of the renegade motorcycle clubs. Southern California, a nose ahead of Texas, remains the manufacturing capital of the country, with scores, if not hundreds, of clandestine operations scattered south from Orange County to San Diego and eastward into the Mojave Desert. "The absolute lock the bikers held has been broken, and it's now a wide...
...mere idea that the Navy is drafting marine mammals has created a furor. A group of 15 organizations concerned with animal welfare has filed a lawsuit against the Government, charging that moving the dolphins from their homes in warm southern waters to the chilly Puget Sound will endanger the animals. Moreover, one of their former trainers asserts that the Navy has abused the dolphins. Still other critics question the wisdom of entrusting the security of the nation's underwater nuclear arsenal to animals, however clever...