Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father's surname to daughters and the mother's surname to sons. For their firstborn, Pierce Barker and Carol Frost of Friendship, Md., did not bother with family at all, nor were they intimidated by the perils of hyphenating. They gave the child the surname Roth-Tubman, after the author Philip Roth and the 19th century abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Similarly, in Newton, Mass., Harry Finkelstein and Jamie Kelem junked their surnames and became the Keshets, from the Hebrew for rainbow...
...Crimson and the author of the piece recognize the seriousness of plagiarism and deeply regret that the article unintentionally included the words and ideas of another person...
...study in the same issue of the journal described the level of AIDS infection in Brazil. Dr. David D. Ho of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center In Los Angeles, senior author of the study, agreed with Quinn's concern...
...Holyoke, Massachusetts-born author traced the thread of American attempts to forge "a grand unifying moral force" to solve the country's problems back to the time of the Puritans...
...were reporting the war to help win it," he said. By the Tet offensive in 1968, however, journalists began to believe the war was unwinnable, the author said...