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...task force offers only sketchy examples of the type of courses that would fit into these requirements. The mathematical reasoning bracket, for example, would include subjects such as statistical inference, computer science, or problems in public policy analysis...
Courses in western culture could be similar to Soc Sci 2, "Western Thought and Institutions," Wilson said. Courses such as Soc Sci 11, "East Asian Civilization," would fit into the non-western bracket...
...worker making $12,000 a year would have paid $1,000 more over a ten year period under the new bill assuming that wages and prices rose 8 per cent a year. The rise in the worker's money income, they said, would have put him in a higher bracket. But the argument is hardly compelling, since such wholesale inflation could never take place without occasioning a compensatory change in the rate structure...
Greenbaum continued in the consolation bracket, receiving a bye in her first round and pulling past her next opponent...
...deaths were the only ones among some 1 million people 65 or older and, in some cases, chronically ill (the group that has top priority in the vaccination program), who had received shots. Yet during any single 24-hour period, there are some 16 deaths in this age bracket among every 100,000 Americans. The gist of the official argument was clear: a similar survey of deaths among the elderly who had, say, just drunk coffee might well have shown a higher mortality rate. Nonetheless, even doctors sympathetic to the flu program warned elderly people with heart or other chronic...