Word: ad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when an ad hoc committee of concerned GSAS minority students made several recommendations about the school's program, the University administration prepared for yet another look at the problem that has plagued them since minority recruitment levels became an issue...
...combat these problems, the ad hoc student group suggested that the GSAS set up a committee to oversee the entire admissions process, increase the financial aid available to minority students and hire a minority group member of attract candidates and help minority students once they enroll in the GSAS...
...BIZARRENESS in Come and Go is of another sort. The three women are film positives. Elaborately costumed, they walk and sit and whisper as if they were snapshots from 1910, the play could be an existential joke, a reductio ad absurdam of both comedy and farce. As the three characters, Kathy Bybee, Immy Humes, and Ilana DeBare seem ready to play their parts for laughs. One is haughty, another childlike, the third cute. But all aspects of the five-minute-long play are commendably understated, from the grey lighting to the long poses. It is understandable that a serious minded...
...smoke," says the grim-looking man in the Winston cigarette ad. Columbia Psychologist Stanley Schachter, 54, agrees that it is better not to ask. The Winston man-or any other heavy smoker-would probably say he smokes for pleasure, or because it calms his nerves, gives him something to do with his hands or solves his Freudian oral problems. "Almost any smoker can convince you and himself that he smokes for psychological reasons or that smoking does something positive for him-it's all very unlikely," says Schachter, a virtual chain smoker himself. "We smoke because...
Next door to the White House, in the stately old Executive Office Building, a nine-man ad hoc team held its first meeting last week. In Washington, task forces and special committees bloom and die like cherryblossoms -and often make about as much impact on policy-but this group is different. Its boss is James Schlesinger, 48, he of the omnivorous intellect and encyclopedic résumé, the man chosen by Jimmy Carter to take charge of the nation's energy problems. The group's goal: to produce a 50-page document outlining, as the President...