Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boondoggles, although the Congressional Budget Office concluded this year that graduates boost their annual incomes by 5% to 15%. Most of the programs are administered without close federal supervision by 446 local governments, and Washington knows little about their effectiveness. Says Sar Levitan, director of George Washington University's Center for Social Policy Studies: "You end up throwing money away without anyone really knowing what is going to happen." At their best, the federal programs have room for only a fraction of the underclass, and most are designed for fairly experienced workers or the motivated poor...
...biography, so to speak, but I think Edel's psychological method offers interesting insights," says Senior Peter Tagge. An ardent sailor, Tagge is writing for his course project a profile of round-the-world Sailor Robin Knox-Johnston. Diane Kilpatrick, a psychologist at Dartmouth's student health center, was also drawn by Edel's analytic method. When Edel proved at the first session to be "a fascinating storyteller," she juggled her schedule so that she could audit the course and has attended "religiously" ever since...
...still faces a murder rap for his part in a 1968 Black Panther Shootout, met a year ago at a religious gathering in Washington, where they discussed their recent conversions to Christianity. The pair appeared together again last week in Anaheim, Calif., at a "charismatic clinic" at Melodyland Christian Center, founded by Pastor Ralph Wilkerson. The topic of their joint lecture: "Solutions to crime in America today...
Cunningham's story is unusual, but it is not unique. Dr. Martin Nemiroff, 36, of the University of Michigan Medical Center, has documented about a dozen similar cases, in which apparently drowned victims recovered from cold waters have been successfully revived. His amazing findings not only offer new hope to those who may share Cunningham's rare experience, but they also impose new responsibilities on the rescuers...
...faces toting plants, wall-hangings and other odds and ends into their assigned rooms. The on addition is Henry C. Moses, newly-appointed dean of freshmen, who will serve in loco parentis for this year's freshman class from his office in the corner of University Hall, in the center of Harvard Yard...