Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pretty depressing. The senior faculty was ganging up on the tired looking junior professors, saying things like "How's the weather down there, eh?" or "If you can push an egg roll with you nose across Weeks Bridge, you automatically get tenure." Most of the administrators were watching "Porky's" on the VCR's, and throwing hors d'ouerves at the screen. The few undergraduates present were massaging the feet of the rest of University Hall. I lifted some caviar and a forgotten cummerbund, found my date and rejoined the real party...
Illinois and Oklahoma called out the National Guard to deal with the disaster, and the Mississippi River reached flood-warning levels. Forecasters offered no rays of hope: a hurricane sweeping up from Mexico threatened the region with more gloomy weather...
Moreover, some sophisticated Soviet observers reason that now is the time to make a deal because Reagan is in a unique position to achieve and then sell an arms-control agreement. His credentials as an arch anti-Communist would enable him to weather criticism from the right about any kind of deal. In addition, his immense popularity will help him persuade the American public to embrace any agreement he negotiates...
Initially, the interviewer may try to break the ice by talking about anything but the job--such as sports, the weather or current events. One Harvard senior encountered an interviewer who spent an entire 30-minute interview talking about football. They had a great conversation--but the student didn't get a second interview...
...beleaguered U.S. space community enjoyed a boost to its morale last week. First a weather satellite was launched without a hitch atop a refurbished 25- year-old Atlas-E rocket. Then an MX Peacekeeper test missile, lofted into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base, neatly deployed its six dummy warheads 4,200 miles downrange in the southern Pacific, the 14th straight success for the program...