Word: subjectity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very least, I wanted people to footnote the fact in speech, to remind themselves and their listeners of its origin. Realizing the impossibility of this, I am content merely with restating my legend. I promise to say no more on the subject...
Sometime during his vacation in Guatemala this week, Staff Writer Michael Lemonick will unpack his amateur astronomer's 4-in. reflecting telescope, set it on its tripod and focus low on the southern horizon. His target: the pinprick of light from Supernova 1987A, the exploding star that is the subject of his cover story in this week's issue. Lemonick, who lives in Princeton, N.J., has made a hobby of stargazing for the past two years. "I usually set up the telescope in my backyard, but Princeton is just too far north to see 1987A. If you travel...
...types saw AIDS as a natural cause and . effect," explains Bob Grant, chairman of the lobbying organization Christian Voice. "People with unsafe and immoral behavior were reaping its results." The AIDS-related death of Terry Dolan, a founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, made it an awkward subject among some New Right activists. But in the wake of recent studies showing that AIDS is spreading to the heterosexual community, the right stopped averting its eyes. Two other developments further energized the right: this month's Supreme Court decision granting victims of communicable diseases the same rights...
...David Sofer were well known respectively in London and Jerusalem financial circles, where they seemed the very models of the modern investment wizard. Less known to their colleagues -- in fact, their deep, dark secret -- was the amount of time they spent in frequent, terse phone conversations. Last week the subject of their calls became the stuff of scandal when the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Vaskevitch, 36, the head of international mergers in Merrill Lynch's London office, and Sofer, 46, an Israeli stock speculator, with ringing up more than $4 million in illegal profits from a transatlantic insider-trading...
...computer catalog system will allow users to locate books by author, book title, subject, key words and call numbers through 30 public computer terminals, said MIT Systems Librarian Amira Aaron. The on-line system should be operating by June, she said...