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Political harmony has proven itself to be a transient international mood. As long as there are reasons for the United States and Soviet Union to conflict--uncontrolled passions in the Middle East and Latin America, the occupation of Afghanistan, Soviet violations of human rights--there will be reasons to rebuild weapons, reasons to deploy weapons, and reasons to use weapons. Arms control is not a solution to these problems...

Author: By Stephen L. Ascher, | Title: Blowing Up Arms Control | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

There is no charge for undergradutes. Graduate students will have to pay the transient rate of $5.90 for dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Must Gobble At Dunster Dining Hall | 10/27/1987 | See Source »

...factor that has stymied investigators is the transient status of most of the victims. Many had few family ties; many were last seen alive hustling on the Sea-Tac strip, a three-mile stretch near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Cindy Anne Smith, for example, was, according to authorities, a runaway at 13 who sometimes supported herself as a topless dancer. Another victim, 15-year-old Carrie Ann Rois, was a streetwalker for three months before she disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Casting A Net at Green River | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Elizondo says he wanted to avoid that "transient feeling" he got from commuting back and forth to the Quad. He says he made his final decision to transfer one morning at about 7 a.m. when he was riding down to practice on his bicycle...

Author: By Gordon M. Burnes, | Title: Transferring Houses | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

Realizing the importance of his discovery, Shelton moved quickly to contact the International Astronomical Union's telegram service in Cambridge, Mass., the world's clearinghouse for announcements of new comets, asteroids and other transient astronomical phenomena. Shelton was the first to report the supernova, but, according to Service Director Brian Marsden, a New Zealand amateur astronomer named Albert Jones also spotted it that night. By the end of the day the service had sent telegrams announcing the supernova, officially designated 1987A, to some 150 institutions around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Wonder in the Southern Sky | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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