Word: careful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They raised $1,530,000. Although large corporate donations accounted for the bulk of the money, the group decided to press for wider community involvement. "Some of us were talking about how in the early days, the neighbors of the Old State House had a grounds committee that took care of the building," explains former University of Connecticut President Homer Babbidge Jr. "Since most of the neighbors are now in skyscrapers, we could not ask them to come out and clean up. So I brought up the idea of asking everyone who had a window view of the grounds...
Inevitably, school closings are more painful to parents than to students. "Kids don't care that much," says one parent,"as long as they can be a crossing guard at the new school. Kids, you know, don't know a thing about property values...
...about where to store radioactive wastes can be resolved once and for all, to the satisfaction of all concerned. Certain bleeding-hearts have asked me, where can we store wastes safely for 100,000 years? There are no human institutions that can be depended on to take care of dangerous substances for so long they say. But the problem is solved! The wastes should be placed in the office of the President of Harvard University. Harvard is the oldest and most stable institution in the U.S., and there can be little doubt that it will outlast civilization as we know...
...third eye," or a disinterested critic, in prime-time programming. Naturally enough, Silverman has devoted almost all his attention to programming. Says an NBC executive: "Fred is like an eager little boy with a highly developed feeling and sense of how to fix programs, and he couldn't care less about all this monkey business about corporate skill and management...
...explanation is so simplified, though, that one must take care not to relax his critical faculties. Although the authors attempt to offer an objective analysis, as advocates of the theory, they tend to be overenthusiastic. It's not that they do not present opposing views (which they do), it's just that Woodcock and Davis always get the last word. Every objection is countered, and for a while it seems as if catastrophe theory really is the successor to the calculus--until the authors present a series of applications of their own device. The reader's reaction to these examples...