Word: stern
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Until this week, that is, when Judith M. Stern '85 will begin to receive skim milk from the Freshman Union as a result of an Expos paper she wrote several weeks...
...boat and the back of the man in the bow seat. To tell how any one boat is doing relative to the others, just look at that boat's number and compare it to the numbers of the boats to the bow and the stern in front and behind of that boat, keeping in mind that if crew number 27 is ahead of crews number 26, 25, and 24, it is doing well with respect to the other three...
Last week Britain issued a stern warning that it would not tolerate aggression against Belize, which is now a member of the 45-nation Commonwealth with Queen Elizabeth as its titular head of state. Britain-and perhaps Canada as well-was prepared to intervene militarily if Belize was attacked. In the mean time, since Belize has only a 700-man defense force, Britain will leave 1,600 troops in the country "for an appropriate period," which will be at least long enough to train additional local troops...
...indeed turned out to be a purification rite more sweeping in its execution than the experts had anticipated. In a ruthless purge of her Cabinet last week. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher cast aside dissenters from her strict monetarist economic policies and replaced them with unstinting loyalists to her stern anti-inflation credo. The action further split her already deeply divided Tory party and set the stage for a political season of unrivaled tumult and upheaval...
Still, Browne said the "stern reality of monetarism does not compare with the real depravity of 1929 and 1930. The problem does not spring from money-- people were starving during the Depression, and no one rioted...