Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That hasn't stopped some from trying. One of the class's celebrities (a group which includes the Governor of West Virginia, who couldn't spare four days off), novelist Erich Segal says he finds Harvard selling a bit too hard. The Harvard of his novel Love Story. Segal says, "was fiction. It was Shangri-la This is trying to make that fiction a reality. We've all come here to believe that fiction. The object is to make you cry, like my book, but you know what the difference is? Love Story costs you two dollars and 50 cents...
...meant on your own, "the Inquisitor said, obviously disappointed that I hadn't spent all my spare nights paging through yellow pamphlets in Widener's dustiest recesses. Since he hadn't read my thesis, he turned to my bibliography page, and said, "There are a lot of names here I expect, and then, there are a lot of others missing." He began to tell me whom I should have used. I said that I felt my interpretations of the books and films were just as valid as the people he was naming, and that I couldn't read everything-especially...
Located near the towns of Dumeir and Shimshar, the sites consist of two batteries of 12 launchers each. Spare missiles bring the total number of SA-5s to about 50. The complex early warning and tracking radars, plus the communications systems and defenses made up of less advanced batteries, are all manned and operated by Soviets. Even though the SA-5s are integrated into a Syrian-controlled air-defense network, the Kremlin has a veto over their use. So tight is Soviet control, in fact, that the Syrian Defense Minister has never been allowed to enter the bases...
Last week the Colts finally struck a deal with the Denver Broncos: two No. 1 draft choices plus a spare quarterback for the rights to Elway, who signed instantly, for $5 million over five years, with Denver, as close as he could get to the West Coast. The affair ended the way all N.F.L. episodes conclude lately, with Raiders Operator Al Davis claiming a league conspiracy had prevented him from trading for the Elway pick. One thing, though. The sympathy ordinarily felt toward the livestock seemed to go off somewhere else too. No matter how good they are, workaday towns...
...ending of the long paper, more exhaustion than explanation, reveals the fact that the author invested in critical research more than he/she could spare from critical thinking. Especially in the first pages, the groundwork is laid (with obvious effort and some skill) for a major edifice that the paper never completes or inhabits. Gradually the paper begins to slip away from coherence as it tries to keep hold of lots of plays and critics, and so while it provides a suggestive survey of references to astronomy in Shakespeare, it never has time to pull them together into any sharp, integral...