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...survey was not commissioned by the food services, but was instead merely an effort by the economics department to acquaint its students with "real-world economic problems," Seiler explained...
...tying to acquaint black women students, professors, and administrators," she said...
...said his own view is that a college education should "instill habits of thought so general that they are useful to any career;" assist in the choice of one's role in society; prepare students to live full lives outside their vocations; and acquaint students with fundamental ethical issues...
Elsewhere, doctors, health officials and concerned citizens are also making a concerted effort to identify and treat as many victims of high blood pressure as they can find. Stanford University has been working through its Heart Disease Prevention program to acquaint people in three northern California cities with the dangers of high blood pressure. Baylor College of Medicine in Houston has just begun a massive education effort. Hospitals in some 20 cities are participating in the federally funded "Mr. Fit" program designed to prevent heart attacks in a test group of men between 35 and 57. It aims at identifying...
...foreigners to be official guests of the U.S. for a month in order to "broaden cultural understanding," according to Jerilyn Reuter, an official in the Governmental Affairs Institute. Reuter says that the U.S. government ties to "select potential or actual leaders of countries to be visitors" in order to acquaint them with the U.S. In September 1973, just after the coup in Chile, the International Visitors Program invited Gustavo Palacios, director of Radio Mineria in Santiago, and Alfredo Concha, owner of the Chilean National Broadcasting System, to be guests of the U.S. government. The radio stations these two men controlled...