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...have come close to dominating women's track and field, will greatly diminish the luster of many events (see following story). True, the rivalry will be broader than in the 1980 Olympics, which drew athletes from only 81 nations to Moscow. Attendance at Los Angeles might equal, or even surpass, the high of 122 countries represented at the 1972 Games in Munich?though much depends on whether the black African nations boycott again (they are incensed because Zola Budd, a fleet middle-distance runner and native South African, may be allowed to compete as a British citizen). But, like...
...ADOPT ADAPT ADEPT" the Japanese corporate motto has always unnerved to Americans have never learned to accepted the utilization on our technological advance by an economic rival as flattery. Japan's ability to take American research developments, make modifications to stuff industrial needs, and surpass or at least match the U.S. in expertise, long ago forced us to resign ourselves to the existence of high tech the existence of high-tech thievery. The crimes in the common opinion, were always committed in some miserable corner of Silicon Valley where only spies and the most devoted scientists dared tread. It follows...
Some such contested interpretations are included in the report itself. Certainly not all students would agree with the report's self-congratulatory assertion that the Afro-Am Department has begun to "Fulfill the Faculty's original copies, and even to surpass them." Many students question that department's relative weakness in African languages and literature, for example. Similarly at least some minority students believe and adviser for minority concerns would be an essential resource for the special problems they face at Harvard, and would in no way represent a triumph of separatism. Perhaps most notably, minority groups and the administration...
...states that the controversial Afro-American department has begun to "fulfill" and even "surpass" its original goals...
When the only patron with politically lib eral sympathies begins to orate, the bar tender-proprietor warns: "You start talkin' about niggers and America in here tonight, I swear you won't get another drink till winter. You understand?" Such moments surpass the contrivances of plot; surprise fades in the glare of recognition...