Word: upholds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowhere is the battle to uphold French more heated than in the fields of science, commerce and high technology, which are dominated the world over by English. "Our technical contribution," the newsmagazine Le Point recently lamented, "stopped with the word chauffeur." To strike back, committees have been formed by industrial and educational groups to create new French words for every modern occasion. Thus, a Frenchman now listens to his baladeur, rather than a Walkman, and plans vacations according to his partage de temps, and not his time-share. While some of the expressions are felicitous -- the computer term random-access...
...other committees, summer of term-time. The Crimson's reporting on the incidents has been both irresponsible and inflammatory; if it continues it could be damaging to individual committees and PBH as a whole. The Crimson should concern itself more with ensuring its reporters follow basic journalistic rules and uphold its lagging standards. PBHA should be allowed to go about its business without harassment from "Harvard's oldest daily." Reporting news accurately is a public service; distorting it is a disservice...
Equipped with the latest technological advances in medicine and artillery, the superhuman Robocop, his memory erased and his mind reprogrammed to "uphold the law," hits the streets of the city's crime-ridden districts. A combination of the Terminator, Dirty Harry and a Campbell's soup can, Robocop shoots with pinpoint accuracy, deflects bullets like an armored car, and handles his machine-gun sidearm like a cowboy...
...biotechnology industry creates through genetic engineering? This is turning out to be a thorny question. As a result, firms may have trouble getting widespread patent protection for their new products. South San Francisco-based Genentech last week lost a significant legal battle when a British high court failed to uphold a patent that the company had received in Britain on t-PA, a substance that dissolves blood clots, a cause of heart attacks. Some industry experts think the British case could be a harbinger of more patent troubles for biotech firms. In the aftermath of the London ruling, the prices...
...charity, was to have fun without making absolute fools of themselves. Except, that is, for Steinbrenner, whose only goal in everything he does is to win, which often guarantees that he makes a fool of himself. "George owns his own harness horses," said Plimpton, "and feels he has to uphold his image...