Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sandinistas. It is now clear to me that from the beginning the overwhelming majority of this group was not just Marxist-Leninist but strongly proSoviet and particularly pro-Cuban. In the contra camps we visited, they used the term engano, which means "we were tricked, we were hoaxed." The Sandinistas have not only lost popular support, I think they are detested by the population...
...another reason. Last week James Ramseur, 19, was convicted of raping a woman in the Bronx last May; he faces a prison sentence of up to 25 years. On the same day, a New York justice ordered Barry Allen, 20, to serve the remainder of a four-year term for robbery after Allen broke his parole by stealing a gold chain. Troy Canty, 20, was sentenced last June to 18 months in a residential drug- treatment program after pleading guilty to petty theft. The fourth, Darrell Cabey, 20, shot in the spine by Goetz and paralyzed, is confined...
Logic is only one part of decision making, Rowan contends; it is often the daring, instinctual leap that can make all the difference. "Hunch is an odious word to the professional manager," he writes. "It's a horseplayer's . . . term, rife with imprecision and unpredictability." Yet the hunch continues to be a major managerial tool. Salting his argument with lively anecdotes and conversations with some 70 chief executives, Rowan makes an impressive and entertaining case...
...SOLUTION TO over-crowding in Massachusetts and elsewhere has been to cut short prison sentences. Those convicted of non-violent crimes in this state now serve only one-third of their term; two-thirds for violent cases. And Massachusetts is one of the tougher states...
According to UHS's Dr. Margaret S. McKenna '70, at UHS psychiatrists do assessments and referrals, short term counseling, and hold groups for bulimics. Anorexics typically do not do as well in groups...