Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to extend the protest to undergraduates, Elaine K. Swift, a sixth-year graduate student and member of the department's sexual harassment committee, distributed a three-page photocopied history of the Dominguez case to about 70 students attending an early lecture of one of his courses, Foreign Cultures 18, "Comparative Politics of Latin America...
...deal was sealed on the telephone. Greg Larson, who is based in Jacksonville, learned that the Utica Blue Sox team , in the Class A New York- Penn League, was for sale for $70,000. The seller required a swift decision. Larson called his colleague, Bob Fowler, in Orlando. Fowler said, "Hell yes, we'll buy it." Today Fowler recollects, "In ten minutes, overcome by the adventure, we had done...
...many minds, AIDS is a kind of validation of Judeo-Christian morality. The virus is a terrible swift sword in the hand of God, a punishment for transgressions against his order. Thus the disease partakes, so to speak, of the prestige of the infinite. AIDS becomes a dramatically targeted refinement of the doctrine that all disease is a form of God's retribution upon fallen and sinful man. "Sickness is in fact the whip of God for the sins of many," said Cotton Mather. AIDS renews in many minds, sometimes in an almost unconscious way, questions of the problem...
Undergraduates who violate standards of truth and academic honesty face swift prosecution. And just a few years ago, the University was rankled by revelations that a scientist had in a Harvard lab perpetrated the worst of academic crimes: the fudging of research results...
...specialist in 18th century English literature, Bullitt was widely recognized for his expertise on the satirist Jonathan Swift, as well as for his wide range of talents and sense of humor. His death came just two months after he filed $5 million lawsuits against each of three tobacco manufacturers and a tobacco trade association, charging that the firms employ deceptive advertising to sell their products and do not give adequate health warnings on packages. His wife said that she had not decided whether to continue the suit...