Word: wind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps these concerns are straws in the wind, another distraction from more severe pressures, more threatening problems to which the Justice Department should apply itself. But in the days when endowments like Harvard's rank alongside the holdings of America's largest corporations, and when education like politics and journalism faces questions of conflicts of interest, it is vital to find if there a clear line dividing "institutions of higher education" from "ordinary" corporations...
Labor unions, women's groups and civil libertarians denounced the decision, which gives a boost to the fetal-protection policies that are spreading throughout the chemical, rubber, semiconductor and automotive industries. Challenges to such employment practices keep arising, though, and before long one may wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court...
...days of The Bushwhacked Piano and does not find it in his new novel, whose aimlessness raises thoughts of old ranch buildings fallen to ruin. His hero, Joe Starling, is a brilliant painter who no longer paints (hello there, Papa H.). Becalmed, then stirred by the faintest of internal winds, he returns from the staleness of the East Coast to Montana, where he has inherited a cattle spread. Here the author novelizes industriously, with small effect. Events occur; characters are brought to life, then enter, speak and exit; but Joe remains a not very interesting puzzle to himself...
Captain Cindy Green hopes that the team can wind up as one of the top three teams in the region, probably behind the powerful team from Dartmouth. The Crimson will be sending riders to the regionals at the conclusion of the season with hopes of advancing to the zonals and ultimately to the nationals. Last year, Anderson finished fourth in the nationals as a freshman...
...been the source of its fascination to other painters. In rendering appearances, every artist has a code of some sort -- a way in which the licks and smears of colored mud on cloth manage, seemingly without intervention from the viewer, to recompose themselves as hard shiny metal, warm flesh, wind-ruffled grass or the sweaty sheen of a horse's flank, all in the blink of an eye. But no artist seems as explicit about this legerdemain as Velazquez. At 20, as The Waterseller attests, he was already a virtuoso of appearances. To be able to record both the half...