Word: warrener
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...taken only a year ago are already outdated. In Quebec City the building of a new downtown convention center and hotel complex has left the old historic quarter essentially unchanged. Hemmed in by the St. Lawrence River on the south and its ancient walls elsewhere, vieux Quebec remains a warren of narrow, hilly streets, dominated by two landmarks -- the venerable, copper-turreted Chateau Frontenac hotel and the ornate 19th century building that houses Quebec's National Assembly. South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. is building a new automobile factory at Bromont, located 40 miles southeast of Montreal, that will provide...
...Warren E.C. Wacker, Director of Harvard University Health Services (UHS), said that the present cold epidemic is "not unusual; we get it every fall." Still, Wacker noted that the cold has struck Harvard students about two weeks earlier than it usually does...
...Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager vans. The impact rippled across the border, idling 1,400 workers at Chrysler's plant in Belvidere, Ill., where most production was shut down for lack of Canadian-made parts, and 500 additional employees at a stamping plant operated by the firm in Warren, Mich. The Canadian union ended its walkout after four days, when Chrysler agreed to index the pensions of future retirees to inflation, up to an annual rate of 6%. The top rate will be 5% for current pensioners. Union leaders hope that the provision will encourage older workers to retire, helping...
...Harvard, in its 350-year history has never had a woman teach at the full-professorial rank in American history," said Warren Professor of American History David H. Donald, who introduced her as such at the beginning of the course he co-teaches with Baker, History 1653, "The American Civil War and Reconstruction...
With typically provocative rhetoric, Bork used the article to single out a number of decisions as "unprincipled." Among them: the 1965 Supreme Court ruling that enunciated the right to privacy in overturning a Connecticut ban on contraceptives, and the Warren Court's series of one-man, one-vote pronouncements. Bork has never backed down from criticizing the privacy decision, a forerunner of the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion ruling. But he found it necessary, under heavy scholarly criticism, to back away from another assertion in the 1971 article, that only "political speech" is protected under the First Amendment...