Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stood inside the front door. Just stood. I had to do a few interviews, then write a story. But no one looked eager to talk. I started toward one player, then stopped. Started toward another, then stopped again...
Many a paper could be spruced up with a few simple graphs, plots and charts. Rather than merely write about the decline of the Holy Roman Empire, Plot it on a scatter plot. While a chart isn't worth a thousand words, graphs can certainly complement a term paper. One of the Happy Hacker's friends swears that grades on her social science papers are increased a couple of notches because of her Mac graphs...
While a young professor at Columbia University Lipset was asked to write an article tracing the history of the school's sociology department...
...English and Afrikaans, have topped 25,000 and kept it on the nonfiction best-seller list for a year, a huge success in a country where nonfiction books usually sell no more than 5,000 copies. Husband-and- Wife Authors Leon Louw and Frances Kendall say they decided to write the book because those who oppose the apartheid system "know what they are against but need something to be for." Says Louw: "The struggle in this country is over who should dominate whom -- that is, who controls the very powerful central government. Our solution entails not having such a central...
...districts that already exist in South Africa. Each canton would have its own parliament and possibly its own constitution. Every level of government would be barred from passing laws that discriminate on racial grounds and would be required to apply all laws equally to all races. "In other words," write the authors, "government would be color-blind...