Word: standings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Assimilating was extremely important to Euterpe Dukakis. She remembered the humiliation of being turned down for a teaching job because she was Greek. The children were to be as American as possible. Michael would stand before a mirror practicing his pronunciation. His mother has no memory of the Greek dancing her son now recalls taking place at family gatherings. "We were leading an American life," she says...
...could be something else. During the past decade, at least eight nations, including the U.S., have conducted seismic explorations of Antarctica's continental shelf. But even if recoverable quantities of oil are discovered, formidable obstacles, including icebergs sometimes as large as the state of Massachusetts, would stand in the way of setting up drilling rigs...
...Bullwinkle will stand 161 ft. higher than the world's tallest building, Chicago's Sears Tower, although only 262 ft. of the rig will poke above the waves. Seven tugboats spent three days towing Bullwinkle to its home, 150 miles southwest of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico. When Bullwinkle reaches full production in 1991, its 50 wells will turn out 50,000 bbl. of oil a day, enough to make 2.1 million gal. of gasoline...
...want to interrupt it." The voice of Dutch Reagan seems to grow a little tentative. Was there an ideological limit to photo opportunities he would allow in this Kremlin pilgrimage? Was there a deal with his host, spoken or not, that Lenin and Reagan should lie and stand apart? Reagan doesn...
...given four-year cycle. While individuals come and go, the University, as it has been put in one well-worn formulation, will be here forever. It is the job of the Corporation and the administration to see that it gets there, that of the faculty to make it stand above the ephemeral and worthy of eternity...