Word: approaches
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Meanwhile other Adams House residents have taken a very opposite approach. For instance Rudy Ruiz '90 and his roomate Peter Clateman '90, who are also running for the council, have engaged in a personal duel. Both posters are written in the same style-black handwritten xeroxed on white paper with a black strip with white writing on top and bottom...
...just political fashion. Says Genevieve Debouzy, of the French space agency: "The seminars that ten years ago would have been given at the Goddard Space Flight Center are now given in Moscow." To the surprise of Americans, the Soviets' well-deserved reputation for a plodding, low-tech, assembly-line approach to space exploration has paid off. Says James Beggs, former NASA administrator: "There's been a habit in this country of thinking of the Soviets as stupid and that they steal all their technology. That's just...
Sagdeyev was already embarked on another project, one that could have ended his career. Called Vega, the mission was designed to approach and study Halley's comet. Sagdeyev chose to build Vega around the proven, off-the-shelf technology of the Venera probes. But he wanted the scientific instruments to be custom designed, even though the expertise was not available within the U.S.S.R. So he recruited scientists from nine countries, including the U.S., to join the project. That was unheard-of in security-conscious Soviet space circles. Recalls Sagdeyev: "Sometimes my opponents, in order to take over, were almost ready...
Bryn Mawr President Mary Patterson McPherson believes single-sex institutions play an important role by contributing to a pluralistic approach to education. She frets about the sameness of so many American colleges: "There aren't many institutions anymore that have a very clear image." Futter concurs, "We are dealing with an increasingly franchised commodity. This isn't hamburgers; this is education." Finally, educational leaders are far from convinced that the women's movement has erased the prejudices that gave rise to women's colleges in the first place. "Maybe there will come a day when women and men will...
...poor, poor people are upset and mad and teed off about the high rate of taxes and the high rate of sewer fees," declared Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci last night--prompting a colleague to approach the press table and whisper, "Is there an election this year...