Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meant to be perfectly true, only pointed in its essence toward a truth. That is, I am employing the device of hyperbole in order to engage the reader in a daringly venomous attack against the materialism of Dade County." This attack, unfortunately, amounts only to wasted space on your op-ed page, for, both in its reasoning and its esthetic implementation, it is not up to Crimson standards...
...statement" of the piece thus does not merit scarce space. What is far worse than whatever offense might come to the reader over the matter of slurs against Jews or the elderly, however, is the offense such pieces are to the notion of quality writing. Materialism might be a problem in South Florida, or in all America, for that matter, but condescension, cynicism and inhumanity are certainly problems among student writers at Harvard, especially when they "roam the real world." I propose that good writing does not intend to shock with every line; nor does good writing rely...
...does, few Beta owners will be surprised. Anyone who has tried to rent Beta movies has had difficulty finding recent film releases. Even though most major Hollywood studios still produce Beta versions of their movies, retail stores and rental shops devote most of their shelf space these days to the more popular (and more profitable) newly released VHS versions of such films as Roxanne and Tin Men. But as the ranks of Beta devotees thin out, they have one small consolation. They will face less competition in renting the Beta ) tapes still available. When they want to check out that...
...specially equipped telescope picked up something astronomers have been seeking for years. Last week Elston and two colleagues announced at an American Astronomical Society conference in Austin that they had found what appeared to be primeval galaxies some 17 billion light-years from earth -- so far away in both space and time that they seemed to be poised at the edge of the universe...
...biggest, Wells Fargo, sold $1.6 billion in futures on Black Monday alone. This was more than the market could absorb. Says Capital's Kirby: "It's like a guy driving into a parking lot with the Queen Mary and asking, 'How come these guys haven't provided a space...