Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student editor. A male associate's "wardrobe of suits can run the gamut from blue to black." Women should dress as drably as possible and avoid makeup and perfume: "You don't want to encourage the senior partner to think of you in the same vein as the women he knew in Paris during...
...timid, ostensibly non-brutal culture, the need to channel human aggression has always proved somewhat of a problem. The macabre nature of Spain's bullfights revolts us, and even our own ancestral tradition of duelling gives us chills. Instead, we prefer something more in the vein of a game, where sportsmanship and fun--not victory and blood--are the central factors. The all-American solution to what we consider an un-American trait of violence has become football...
...even less Hollywood-like vein, funds for the project had already been obtained by the National Council of La Raza from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Council had funds to produce "something which would counteract the negative portrayal of Hispanics on television and in film," said project coordinator Guadalupe Saavedra. But in order to insure universal appeal. Saavedra continues. "We had to resist the temptation to exploit the good versus bad. Anglo versus Mexican aspects of the story...
Salafsky said that he has not heard any criticism about the prank. He added that he hopes everyone mentioned in the fake test, including instructors William A. Klemperer, Erving Professor of Chemistry and Veronica Vaida, Associate Professor of Chemistry, "take the projects in the humorous vein in which it was intended...
...government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini left no doubt of how it views the new development. "The Persian Gulfs jugular vein is in our hands," declared Iranian state radio. "Should an attempt be made to use the planes to damage Iran's vital resources, Iran would turn the Strait of Hormuz into a quagmire for the West's imperial objectives." Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Speaker of the Iranian parliament, put it more chillingly. If Tehran bottles up the gulf, he warned, "the West will have a very cold winter...