Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rapes occurred October 4 and October 21 within two blocks of each other. Since then there has been a substantial increase in the use of the Brown shuttle system from about 40 people a night to more than 100, and the late-night escort service is overtaxed as well. The University has rented a second shuttle bus and is developing plans to expand the escort service to meet the increased demand...
...about 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing approximately 150-160 pounds. According to police, the attacker grabbed his first victim from behind and held a knife to her throat. The second woman was threatened with a knife but never actually saw it. In neither case did the man use his knife...
...support deserve better than being relegated to musty, cramped basements or the dorm rooms of their members. It is true that a new center would provide many groups with larger and more attractive offices. However, several of these financially strapped student organizations surely would be charged extra for their use of the newly renovated office space...
Then again, why not use money to improve house facilities? After all, what bothers many students now is not the lack of a campus student center, but rather the lack of such a center in their own houses. Wouldn't most students profit more from a closer relationship with the people of their own houses--which are supposed to be microcosms of the College anyway--rather than unrealistically trying to "meet" everyone in the school...
Manager Tommy Lasorda's prescience began with his use of Hatcher. Besides making a concert of the hit and run, Lasorda also let the A's alumnus Mike Davis ("a buck-ninety hitter," as Dennis Eckersley moaned) swing away in the fifth game on a 3-and-0 count -- for a homer, of course. Wisest of all, he persisted with Hershiser in the treacherous moment of that last 5-2 victory, when the choirboy was so spooked he actually sang hymns. "Today I'm living out the dream," Hershiser had said, "of a kid who was funny looking, wore glasses...