Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nobody gets on probation. All our guys graduate. National Collegiate Athletic Association," he says, pointing to your NCAA pin. "There's a word in there called collegiate. What's that mean? It means that you make decisions not because of money and not because of outside pressure. You make a decision because it's the right thing to do, and the Ivy League playing in the NCAA tournament is the right thing...
Wearing the suits instead of the normal casual wear apparently was a tongue-in-cheek response to word that NASA was trying to curb astronauts' penchant for fun. Officials reportedly were annoyed by a televised show two missions ago when the crew floated through the shuttle cabin wearing colorful Hawaiian shirts...
...referendum passes this week, the Undergraduate Council can truly become the voice of student opinion. A "Yes" vote is a demand that the word "student" be put back into student government. At stake in the balloting is the direction of the council itself. Will it increasingly use its nascent political voice to represent student opinion or will it backslide into a stagnant pool of chocolate milk and malaise...
RICHARD BURTON: A LIFE by Melvyn Bragg (Little, Brown; $22.95). This meticulous biography includes generous quotations from the subject's letters and his 350,000-word private diary; the result is a portrait of a vivid actor who approached language with the same passion he lavished on Elizabeth Taylor...
HEALTH: The latest word on what to eat and drink...