Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story begins with the creation of a new teritorial police squad for combatting a crime wave in Belleville, a distinctly unpicturesque part of paris. The group of policemen are all right-something of a mostly crew. The captain, who is still emotionally fighting the Algerian War, is determined to win this time. There is paluzzi brighter than the others, but smarting from knowing that he is really just as small a fry as the drug-pushers and pickpockets he is out to get. The Belgian, tall, goony, and love-starved, looks and acts like a clumsy kid with a congenital...
...electronic cottage. Just four years ago, Alvin Toffler in The Third Wave described a halcyon future when people would work at home connected to the office by inexpensive computers. No more commuting. No more expensive office buildings. Higher productivity since employees would not be constantly interrupted as they are at the office. Wrote Toffler: "Our entire economy would be altered almost beyond our recognition...
...tenure appointment followed a nationwide increase in the number of women pursing careers as professors. "We're seeing the great wave of women who entered graduate school in the late 60s come up for tenure for the first time now," says Nancy Maull, a Faculty administrator who monitors affirmative action...
...United States and Vatican City last week when he extended diplomatic recognition to the Holy See. Though American Presidents since Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 have sent personal representatives to the Vatican, there have not been any official diplomatic exchanges since 1867. It was then that Congress, responding to a wave of anti-Catholicism and American sympathy for Italian efforts to reunify their country at the expense of the Papal States, passed a resolution barring the government from spending federal money on missions to the Holy...
RECOVERING. W. Averell Harriman, 92, former Governor of New York and U.S. Ambassador to London and Moscow; from a broken knee suffered when the Democratic Party's elder statesman was knocked over by a wave while walking on the beach; at his house in Barbados...