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Beginning this week, TIME will adopt the Pinyin (Chinese for phonetic spelling) system of transcribing Chinese names of people and places into English. Earlier this year, Peking officially changed to Pinyin spellings in its foreign-language publications; U.S. Government agencies, as well as many newspapers, magazines and news services in America, Europe and Australia have subsequently decided to follow suit...
...elusive ingredients of the mood they are examining force them to turn away from the phenomenon itself. They prefer to tabulate its incidence and parameters. So, even though they maintain their scientific detachment and method in analyzing data, to collect it they have had no convenient choice but to adopt the time-tested techniques of public opinion polling. Subjects are asked merely to declare their degree of happiness, not define it. Even Pollster Louis Harris turns up as an unlikely temporary happyologist, reporting for this month's Playboy that while 49% of American men rank sexual satisfaction as "very...
Second, and equally important, that they adopt employment policies that are designed to train and promote non-white South Africans as rapidly as possible, and that in the interim they treat them equally with respect to wages, benefits, facilities, union negotiations and in every other dimension of the employment contract...
...threaten Harvard's freedom from outside interference and endanger its financial base--are too vaguely presented in the letter to have much punch. Who is it that would interfere? Why would they do so? Just what are the financial costs of the moral positions Bok is so reluctant to adopt...
Michael A. Spence, professor of Economics and the chairman of the ACSR, said yesterday the ACSR will adopt one of the procedural reforms by distributing the committee's agenda to the Harvard Gazette and other University newspapers prior to each meeting...