Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Starr County, Texas, the U.S. Border Patrol truck sits, engine idling, on a dirt track near the Rio Grande. Its headlights have been off since it left the highway half an hour earlier and bumped across rough farm roads to within a few hundred yards of Mexico, just visible in the moonlight on the far bank of the river...
...Dalton is denied tenure by the Law School faculty, making her the second tenure track professor in 17 years to be denied a promotion, and the third Critical Legal Studies (CLS)-affiliated professor to have their tenure bid blocked by either Bok or the faculty. Although she receives a 29-20 vote of the faculty supporting her promotion, Dalton falls four votes shy of the two-thrids majority necessary for approval. Dalton says at the time that she will ask Bok to review the case, charging that the faculty discriminated against her because she is a woman and is affiliated...
...three I saw] were representative of the other nine, they were soft, People magazine, substanceless fluff," says Kalb. Moreover, Kalb points out that despite Frost's higher budget and more explosive style, "Candidates '88" received more coverage in the media. Clearly, even an academic likes to keep track of his headlines...
...first, short-track skating looks less like a sport than a kung-fu gang war on ice, the combatants wielding giant switchblades with their feet. Skaters jostle and bump around the perpetual curves of the 111-meter loop, and when one loses a jot of control, three are likely to careen across the water- slickened ice. But as Olympic spectators have seen, short-track racing is an intricate sport, replete with complex strategies. Since up to six skaters start at once, it has the drama of a pack of competitors struggling cheek to cheek -- battle like it oughta...
...have found an appealing amount of danger. There is less of it than in aerial skiing, which is as much a sport as cliff diving in Acapulco, but much more than in that odd amalgam of shuffleboard and housecleaning called curling. In the current heat of demonstration sports, short-track skating seems worthiest to win normal- event status...