Word: wave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...north and 50 degrees 14 min. west, nobody has ever been sure of the exact coordinates; an error of only minutes in either direction translates into an uncertainty of many square miles. Worse, the ocean floor has bumps, rolls and other geological features that could produce a reflected sound-wave pattern confusingly similar to that of a sunken ship...
Officials in Tunisia were outraged. Some 23,000 of the country's workers were returning home from neighboring Libya bearing tales of forced detention, beatings and the seizure of possessions, including their passports. The unhappy caravan was the first wave of some 90,000 Tunisian workers in Libya affected by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi's decision earlier this month to expel foreign workers. Libya's economy has been hard hit by reduced earnings resulting from the oil glut...
Only a few people own the businesses swooped into the wave of profit, so only a few reap its rewards. At the same time, those on the bottom rungs are not only excluded from the "national" gains, but suffer further from government cuts in social spending and private cuts in wages...
...everything will be fun and games. Tossed into Jewett's lap as he enters office are the $27 million Quad renovations, controversy surrounding the recently-reactivated Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, and an ever increasing wave of campus protest against University investments in South Africa...
...some point or another, you'll want to venture beyond the world of Harvard's dimly lit cafes. There's lots of dancing to popular new wave music and techno-pop bands at the newly opened Man Ray (21A Brookline St.). It's connected to a gay night club next door so you'll find a mixture of men dancing with m.n. women with women, and men and women. If you want more emphasis on the band than the dancing, check out The Channel...