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...someone with such enormous integrity and decency that it was overwhelming," Bok said. "He was just a superior sort of person, not given to any of the pettiness or distempers that afflict most of us ordinary mortals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former K-School Dean, Law Prof., Fogg Director, Scholar Pass Away | 9/13/1995 | See Source »

...someone with such enormous integrity and decency that it was overwhelming," Bok said. "He was just a superior sort of man, not given to any of the pettiness or distempers or other defects that afflict most of us ordinary mortals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former K-School Dean Dies | 7/11/1995 | See Source »

...standards. Although President Clinton recently vetoed a GOP bill that included a provision blocking the creation of RSI rules, Labor Department officials said that the current climate on Capital Hill made it too difficult to set any meaningful regulations. Department figures say that a variety of musculoskeletal disorders afflict over 700,000 people each year, but many doctors say that there is no medical evidence linking some of these disorders to the jobs patients perform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OSHA STALLS ON REPETITIVE STRAIN | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

...entirely different vein from Dean'sreminisces on life at Harvard, Radcliffe oratorNatasha H. Leland '95 discussed the shortattention spans and shortened memories which shesaid afflict many of the college generation...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Class Day Speeches Remember, Look Forward | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...After an intense four-year search, researchers report that they have isolated the gene responsible for a hereditary form of breast cancer that may afflict one in 200 women. Although the discovery will not lead to any improvements in medical treatments in the near future, scientists hope it will teach them something about how breast cancer develops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Sep. 26, 1994 | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

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