Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holds sway in tuxedo design. "You want to know what I think about those colored things? They stink," says Sy Max, owner of Baldwin Formals in Manhattan. "Our tuxes are for people not buying for fads," comments Jack R. McDonald of the highly regarded Oxxford Clothes in Chicago, whose basic silk model runs about $1,300. "Our primary market is the power structure of this country...
...three were cited for developing methods that have revealed the most basic mechanisms of chemical reactions. To construct theories of what happens when chemicals react, scientists, prior to the laureates' work, had only sketchy evidence: the chemical products and the amount of energy produced or consumed by the end of a multistep reaction. But these observations gave information only about the net effect on millions of molecules; the changes that occur to individual molecules at each step stayed a mystery...
...cares about mail-in? The elderly, the handicapped, people who work unusual hours, people who commute and anyone who can't afford to spend hours in a line waiting to exercise their most basic right as a citizen...
Apple Computer has recently introduced new Macs with enhanced ROMs (read only memory, or computer chips that take care of basic system functions), extra storage memory and larger capacity internal disk drives. There is also the Mac Plus, with its expanded memory capabilities and SCSI port (pronounced scuzzy, sexy, sushi depending on how it's acting at the time). Actually, the SCSI stands for Small Computer Standard Interface, and is a system for hooking up extra devices such as hard disk drives...
Harvard could require students to attend a series of lectures where professors present the basic elements of their fields. After each mandatory lecture, students would be required to summarize the information that had just been presented. There would be no out-of-class assignments. With one lecture a week for four years, Harvard could easily provide its students with the knowledge which the Core Curriculum allows them to avoid...