Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout Harvard history, students have blown off steam by staging protests against University policies, ranging from food to investment quality. And administrators have become pretty heated up about the students' skirmishes, responding with disciplinary action, ranging from arrests to merely turning the other cheek...
...once again an abstract problem -- discussed in terms of percentage increases and changing demographics -- becomes a shivering man or woman struggling for survival, a pair of eyes that painfully remind us of our human bond. In cities across the nation shelters overflow, leaving the spillage to cope on steam grates or in subway tunnels or wherever else warmth can be found. These street people are the most destitute of the nation's 350,000 or more homeless citizens. To explore their plight, Time Correspondent Jon D. Hull took up residence on the streets of Philadelphia. Some of the people...
...list could go on. But I tire of creation. Just remember, David Letterman has legitimized playful destruction on national television--playing with his hydraulic steam compactor, dropping things off five story buildings. So don't feel timid: take heart, go forth and destroy...
...proudly admits that he dissembles, uses women, flaunts his wealth to get an agreement. "When I am trying to broker a deal," he says animatedly, "in diplomacy or business, I don't tell the truth to both sides all the time. You should let both sides let off steam and feel vindicated. Then it's time to encourage both to be generous in victory. You can usually have a deal if each has something the other wants as long as you can defuse the psychological land mines...
...ceiling. Police have had to clear picketers off railroad tracks at scores of stations, and labor unrest has spread to Communist-led work stoppages on Paris subways, in the electric-power service and on the docks. At week's end the rail strike finally seemed to be losing steam, but the unrest could be prolonged in other areas...