Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...False accusations have been made against me by an assistant coach, and the publicity generated has harmed my family, the players and the football program," McElreavy said in a statement issued by the athletic department. "I cannot subject those I love and admire to further public abuse. I have therefore decided to step down as head football coach...
...professors involved in the process said yesterday it is unlikely that any action would be taken on the issue. The subject of grading was first raised after a survey showed a majority of the faculty preferred the more stringent grading system. Defenders of the current system say 'F' grades would constitute an academic 'Scarlet Letter' which would unnecessarily demoralize students...
Reagan also said Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat did not make a clear-cut commitment to recognize the state of Israel despite a statement to that effect this week before the United Nations. The president said Arafat "left himself openings" on the subject...
...subject matter of The Mikado remains as pertinent today as a century ago. Crooked politicos and covert dealing abound. Ko-Ko (Steve Mooradian), sentenced to die for flirting, has managed to get himself promoted to the top of the criminal justice system--Lord High Executioner. All other functions of state fall under the aegis of the corrupt, sneering Pooh-Bah (Kenneth Bamberger). The regal Mikado (Anton Quist) makes certain that the "punishment fit the crime"--that ludicrous laws decapitate luckless lovers. Fortunately, palmgreasing and artful seduction prevent anyone from getting hurt...
...birth remained forever ugly." The definition of kaghan includes the following detail: "The kaghan always shared power with a coruler and was senior to him only to the extent that he was the first to be wished a good day." And then there is "Cyril," which sets forth its subject's illustrious life, including his attempt to create a written form for Slavic: "He started with rounded letters, but the Slavonic language was so wild that the ink could not hold it, and so he made a second alphabet of barred letters and caged the unruly language in them like...