Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Terrel H. Bell, 54, had a problem familiar to many Americans: even with a handsome salary ($37,800), he was not going to be able to put all his children through college. Bell's eldest son will enter the University of Utah in September (room, board and tuition: $2,700); two other sons will soon follow...
...might also seize this opportunity to point out that Professor Daniel Bell was entirely correct and Mr. Jim Kaplan entirely wrong in their remarks in The Crimson of March 13th concerning the report on "The Governability of Democracy" which I drafted for the Trilateral Commission together with Professors Michel Crozier and Joji Watanuki. In the Great Crimson tradition of irresponsible and sloppy journalism, Mr. Kaplan did not bother to ask me or the Trilateral Commission office about the current status of this report. Instead, he simply repeated the inaccuracies of an earlier Crimson account. In fact, as Professor Bell points...
...good deal of the concern about "grade inflation" derives from simple ignorance of statistics. All college teachers have had to learn about the bell-shaped curve, that symmetrical pattern formed by the grades of a large, representative population, and in the minds of many that frequency distribution, intended to be descriptive, has become normative. Whether a teacher uses a precise formula or a rough estimate, he tends to think that the largest number of grades in his course ought to cluster around an average (a "C"), with roughly equal numbers of grades above and below that average. But these days...
...best-organized economic advisory groups of the campaign. It has recently completed work on a comprehensive economic program that Carter will announce this week. Among his other advisers are experts as diverse as Albert Sommers, chief economist of the Conference Board, a business research group, and Carolyn Shaw Bell, a strong advocate of greater progress for women. Also in Carter's advisory group: Lester Thurow, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a liberal who had a major hand in formulating McGovern's welfare proposals, and Martin Feldstein, of Harvard, who is sufficiently conservative to have been invited...
...company has also developed techniques to decrease costly "bounce" dives-twelve hours of on-deck decompression for every half-hour on the ocean floor. Descending in a pressurized diving bell, an Oceaneering diver can work underwater shifts of four hours or more with only four days off out of every 15 for decompression. Another innovation: an experimental suit that encases a diver in normal atmospheric pressure at great depths, thus eliminating the need for decompression altogether...