Word: beckers
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Opening the discussion was Anne E. Becker, director of research and training for the center and assistant professor of medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School...
...Becker described "widespread cultural forces to be thin" in the U.S. and said that because Americans are becoming increasingly overweight, the ideal of thinness "is increasingly unattainable...
...plausible competitors are. In fact there aren't any. In 1969 McGraw-Hill brought out its five-volume Dictionary of Art, still useful but a mere dinghy in comparison with this dreadnought. The ur-art dictionary was begun in 1907 by two German scholars, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, but since the publication of its 37th volume in 1950, it has tried to do no more than issue occasional volumes of updates. Even that is a task comparable to repainting the Brooklyn Bridge with a nail-polish brush. Thieme-Becker is not, in any case, translated into English...
...Crimson's ludicrous accusation that "Supply-side economics has been ridiculed by every economist except Jack Kemp...," I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that Nobel laureates Gary Becker and Milton Friedman, both of whom have endorsed the Dole tax cut plan, aren't credible enough for The Crimson. And perhaps John F. Kennedy '40, who said on September 18, 1963 that "By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance," doesn't meet the Crimson's exacting standards--despite having been a Crimson editor. But what about...
...wrong, I like the underdog, but this wasn't exactly like the unseeded Boris Becker taking the title by storm. The women's draw was and will continue to be the Steffi Graf show. Even the criminal activities of her father have ceased to be interesting...