Word: unite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number, which is not all inclusive, has increased from 99 in 1980 to 276 last year, according to the Justice , Department's community-relations service. Depending on how "racist attacks" are defined, other listings go much higher. In New York City alone, the police department's bias-incident investigating unit reported that such occurrences increased from about four a week to ten a week in just the past month...
Randy Taylor often isn't the most consistent player on the ice--his play has varied from average to magnificent this year--but his commanding (and large) presence on the first defensive unit, on the power play and as a penalty killer has had a steadying influence on his team-mates...
During his years at the Medical school George D. Snell wrote his 1930 graduate thesis on "Observations on Three Unit Characteristics of the House Mouse, Short-Ear, Hairless, and Naked, with Special Reference to Linkage." Fifty years later, presumably after dealing with many more mice, he too picked up a Nobel Prize...
...Viet Nam, but in the dream, "they had shipped me back. Somehow they found me at the age of 38 and sent me back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror." That was two years ago. Now Stone, who earned a Bronze Star and a MASH unit's worth of physical and emotional wounds in the jungles of Viet Nam, has transformed his war experience -- the bad dream he lived through for 15 months in 1967-68 -- into a film called Platoon. With craft, crackle, a little bombast and plenty of residual rage, he has created a time...
...whole picture of Viet Nam on a movie screen. There were 2.7 million stories in the naked jungle. Each veteran has his own view of the war, and each will have his own vision of Platoon. More than a few are disturbed by its presentation of a military unit at war with itself. Says Bob Duncan, 39, who served in the 1st Infantry at the same time Stone was in the 25th: "He managed to take every cliche -- the 'baby killer' and 'dope addict' -- that we've lived with for the past 20 years and stick them in the movie...