Word: bells
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ATTORNEY GENERAL GRIFFEN BELL'S effort to determine the possibility of extending the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment comes as a welcome indication of the Carter Administration's commitment to the ERA and what it represents...
...result was bewildering chaos and confusion, as well as some entertaining legislative theater. Fearful that one of the 508 amendments might slip through, weary Senators set up camp in and around the chamber, trying to catch a few minutes' sleep and listening for the bell that signaled roll calls. After several votes that were made harrowingly close by the absence of heavy sleepers, Byrd ordered aides to compile a roster of Senators, listing the nooks and hallways where they were catnapping, so they could be roused in time. Abourezk and Metzenbaum spelled each other occasionally and consented to several...
...Idleness is the death of a living man," said the 17th century British prelate Jeremy Taylor. Work is an anodyne for the inevitability of death, says contemporary Sociologist Daniel Bell. For Sigmund Freud, work was a means of binding an individual to reality and his community...
Another sports enthusiast, Sandy L. Assaro '81, said, "I'm getting in shape for the Bonne Bell Mini-Marathon on Monday. And I'm going to a Woody Allen Festival tomorrow night, and after the marathon I'm going to a cook-out. And if I have some time, I'm going to catch up on my Hum 9a reading...
Lester Thurow, an MIT economist, will discuss "The Current Economic Predicament" at 8:30 p.m. in Emerson 305. If Thurow's name rings a bell, you may have taken Ec 10. Thurow was the one who talked about "job competition"--a scenario where jobs search for workers--as opposed to the standard theory of "wage competition" in which workers run around looking for jobs. Thurow's theory has numerous applications in the study of black-white income disparities, and explaining in general why some people have more money than others. This last is a topic that Thurow examined...