Word: arrowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bent leads him to shun disputes such as those waged by liberal Keynesians and conservative monetarists. "I do not consider myself involved in economic policy in any way," he says. Nevertheless, his work does have some practical applications in the hands of other economists. According to Stanford Economist Kenneth Arrow, a 1972 Nobel winner who has worked closely with Debreu, equilibrium theory is used by private forecasters and government planners to predict such things as the impact of a tax change on various industries...
...known for jotting mathematical formulas in the upper left-hand corner of a blackboard at the beginning of a lecture and then gradually covering every bit of remaining space with symbols, until he ends up in the lower right-hand corner. His most striking qualities, says Stanford's Arrow, are "the quickness of his mind and the elegance of his thought...
Davis has sent samples of the zombie potion to laboratories in Europe and the U.S., where in one experiment it induced a trancelike state in rats. Such research in the past led to the discovery of curare, an arrow poison from the Amazon now used to paralyze muscles during surgery. Tetrodotoxin may also one day find its place in the medical armamentarium. "People who have lived in the tropics for centuries have learned things about plants and animals that we have not fathomed," says Richard Evan Schultes, head of Harvard's renowned Botanical Museum. "We must not leave...
...unemployed, with the equivalent of a ninth-grade education and a history of emotional and mental problems. Many wear tattoos made from colored toothbrushes melted down in prison. Some of the designs, hidden in the webbing between the thumb and forefinger, are emblems of criminal specialties: Madre and an arrow for murder, a star under three vertical bars for kidnaping...
...Arrow (Bow St.): It's an unwritten rule in the Square that Harvard students shouldn't include the Bow and Arrow (a.k.a. Father's) in their plans for six days of the seek, but rather make up for their weekly abstinence on the seventh While leaving the other days for the Cantabrigian locals, the Wednesday night happy hour deal of $2.25 per pitcher of Knickerbocker beer is too good to keep people away from this cavernous establishment. If you want to break new ground however, pitchers go for $3.95 other days...