Word: betas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People started paying the junior Phi Beta Kappa key-winner to tutor their children. "It was pretty primitive compared to what I'm doing now," Kaplan said recently during an interview. "Forty years ago there were no standardized tests. The big thing was grade-point average, so I tutored in the three R's." Kaplan's engaging whiz-kid personality rubbed off on his clients--his reputation grew to the point where he was tutoring 200 students on a one-to-one basis...
...Labor Department's 1973 declaration of zero tolerance levels in industry for ten widely used chemicals, including benzidine and beta-naphthylamine...
Weld was graduate from Harvard in 1966 summa cum laude. He was president of Phi Beta Kappa. He then went to Harvard Law School where he received a J.D. with honors. He worked as associate minority counsel of the United States House Judiciary Committee when that committee was investigating Watergate. He is presently living in Cambridge, with his wife, who is also a lawyer, and two children. Many political observers have said that the only problem with Weld is his political affiliation--Republican. Weld says he became a Republican because his father was a Republican, and leaves it at that...
...Ostling, gaining a private talk with one of the world's most important religious leaders was the latest accomplishment of a career that began in 1963. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, he wrote for Christianity Today, a Protestant publication (his own beliefs, he says, are "conventionally Protestant"). Ostling became its news editor, then joined TIME...
Presently the method of identification can detect two types of anemia, alphathalassemia and beta-delta-thalassemia. The most common type of anemia in the country, beta-thalassemia (Cooley's anemia) cannot be detected...