Word: tranquility
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poor black; the "Gold Coast'1 out along 16th Street is largely black and upper middle class and stucco. But the city has more than its share of the ravages of poverty, a situation not improved after the riots of 1968, when "white flight" to tranquil McLean, Va., and such places left the city poorer...
...flat 3.2-mile course through the tranquil waters and Greek temples of Roger Williams Park, located six miles from the Brown campus, had a fork that took Harvard's number-three runner, Ellen Gallagher, way out of her way. And with her went the chance to beat a skillful squad from...
...cadets are so high for this game, It's unbelievable," Cow (the army term for junior) Brad Lewallen said yesterday, and the mood around this tranquil and beautiful campus bears him out. One company (dorm unit) has planned a "Joe Preppie" night for the evening meal, where the cadets will dress "as preppily as possible" in mock-deference to the visiting Crimson, according to yearling (sophomore) Michelle Matthews. Matthews may have an edge; her brother, Mark, is a Harvard sophomore...
...tranquil facade cannot conceal the fact that the gulf has become a focal point of geopolitical tension. The demise of Iran as a regional superpower has left the area in a vacuum; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has stirred fear. If the vision of a clash between Moscow and Washington over oil is the ultimate nightmare of gulf leaders, Iran's revolution has raised immediate concerns over regional rivalry and internal stability...
...from the living laboratory of Mount St. Helens. Some 200 have been to the mountain, and hundreds of others have applied for permits through a committee of scientists, mainly from the Northwest, who are screening applicants on behalf of the U.S. Geological Survey. The screening process is anything but tranquil as scientists from some 60 universities badger authorities for permission to enter the normally forbidden "red zone" around the foot of the mountain. Some of those denied access have accused the Forest Service and the U.S.G.S. of conspiring to corner data from the mountain, using bureaucratic red tape to keep...