Word: subjecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saladin sprouts a pair of horns on his forehead and cloven hoofs; these mutations earn him, a British subject, rough handling by police and immigration officials. Gibreel develops a visible arc of light, a halo, around his head, and must cope with the awestruck reverence of perfect strangers. His new radiance aggravates an older problem, particularly puzzling in light of his newfound atheism: his vivid cinematic dreams, in which he is cast as the Archangel Gibreel, but without a script, and then asked by a series of petitioners to deliver Allah's word...
...take some solace in knowing that Balzac was criticized the same way -- he was obsessed with furniture. Details are of no use unless they lead you to an understanding of the heart. It's no mystery; it has to do with the whole subject of status...
...with a portrait of Wright, solemnly intoning that "a pay raise without a vote is stealing." Later Humphrey came as close to blows as Senators ever do with fellow Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska, who favors the pay hike, during a heated exchange at a committee hearing on the subject. Some of Wright's House colleagues, the vast majority of whom want the raise, have started comparing him, unfavorably, with Sam Rayburn, another Texan who once occupied the Speaker's chair...
...Manager Michael L. O'Hara said yesterday he was notified in January of the decision to close HUS, which is a subsidiary of the Harvard Purchasing Department. A campus purchaser and distributor of copying machine supplies, paper products and lab supplies for 40 years, HUS last year was subject to a departmental review...
...whether or not the subject matter of thecourses was responsible for last week's heavycourse turnouts, students say that the mainproblems caused by the lotteries were intensifiedby the shortened shopping period...