Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billboard signs are not the most appropriate means of convincing illegals to get in touch with the INS. An English message in harsh colors spelling out threateningly "Don't get left behind," visible only to those with cars and legal driver's licenses is a big waste of advertising space. Is it possible that the INS does not realize this? Or do they not want too many people to notice the signs...
...decided to reduce their legal numbers by 6000 per year. This will make room for the potential influx of Jews and Armenians from the Soviet Union. Possibly the only way to prevent Thailand from turning back the Indo-chinese escapees is for the U.S. to guarantee the refugees additional space, allowing Thailand to harbor them temporarily. Yet our reaction is the exact opposite...
...nomination process and what issues are going unaddressed." Barrett deals with those concerns every week, but he still relishes the carnival. Since his trusty suitcase let him down, Barrett has made do with a bedraggled garment bag "that doesn't quite fit into either the overhead bin or the space beneath the seat." It should at least see him through this week's Illinois primary...
...Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where his colleagues have included the likes of Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kurt Godel and John von Neumann. Dyson has had an intimate look at upheavals of contemporary science ranging from advances in particle physics and molecular biology to space travel and artificial intelligence. His long career in the ivory tower has not made him a reflexive defender of his elite brotherhood. "I detest and abhor," he writes, "the academic snobbery which places pure scientists on a higher cultural level than inventors." Nor has he been content to converse solely with fellow...
...interested in shaking people up," says Randy Weiner, who directed this week's play. He says the common room is "such a dead space." By using the common room in an untraditional way, Weiner says he hopes to make people think about a space they now "take for granted...