Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medicine changes its mind about tonsillectomies that used to be routinely performed. Those dazzling phosphate detergents turn out to be anathema to the environment. Scarcely a week goes by without the credibility of one expert or another falling afoul of some spike of fresh news. (Just last week an array of nonprescription sedatives used by millions was linked, through the ingredient methapyrilene, to cancer.) Moreover, experts are constantly challenging experts, debating the benefits and hazards of virtually every technical thrust. Who knows anything for sure? Could supersonic aircraft truly damage the ozone? The technical sages disagree...
...administrator, Pfeiffer is reluctant to delegate authority. Her style runs more to mastering all the minutiae herself and plunging into an array of meetings to keep on top of the corporate scene. Instead of long memos, she scratches out terse notes to staffers on file cards, many of them dashed off during her commute from Greenwich, Conn., in her chauffeur-driven $46,000 gray Cadillac...
These pilgrims came to see five smiling, intense black men wearing eyeglasses, facepaint, flowing third world costumes and smart white surgeon's coats; they came to listen to ancient yet modern music performed on a dazzling array of strange instruments. They were not disappointed...
Undaunted by the array of difficulties confronting him, Carter plunged into his most active week since his diplomatic triumph in the Middle East. Carrying out a promise to Israel's Premier Menachem Begin, he went to the rotunda of the Capitol to attend a solemn ceremony in remembrance of the victims of the Nazi Holocaust. As former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg wept openly, the President declared that it was fitting to "remember the terrible price paid for bigotry and hatred and also the terrible price paid for indifference and for silence." Carter said that he had vowed...
Another summerlong delight is France's alpine Department of Savoie, an overnight train trip from Paris. Renowned ski resorts like Chamonix, Megève and Val d'Isére offer competitive prices and an array of music and dance festivals, mountain climbs, arts and craft seminars and the regional cuisine. A bunk in a mountain hostel goes for around $4.50; a room at a fashionable resort...