Word: central
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Council opposed eliminating concentration course requirements on managerial rather than philosophical grounds. The central problem, say Council members, is equating other universities' offerings with Harvard's. When credit is limited to concentration courses, the department involved may evaluate a course "with some degree of knowledge," Skocpol believes. But once students are allowed to ask for credit in any area, Skocpol says the Council fears the onslaught of "too much administrative burden, if too much detail is required...
...August to become Carter's Treasury chief after the summary axing of Blumenthal, the Fed's monetary policy was in disarray. So strong has been the resulting expansionary momentum that even as investors and financial markets were reeling last week from Volcker's abrupt shift in Fed tactics, the central bank itself glumly announced that money growth for the previous week had been a too robust $2 billion. That was anywhere from two to four times what had been expected...
...scientists examining the samples brought back to earth by Apollo found no signs of life, Sagan proclaimed to their collective infuriation that the moon was "dull." This polemic grates in the course of Broca's Brain. It pops up in almost every chapter, tied tortuously to whichever theme is central at the time. Sagan ought to have called his first book "Why I Think There's Life on Other Planets" and been done with it. Instead, he has embellished his thesis a bit, disguised the central theme, and called it Broca's Brain...
Gordimer's compassion and outrage color one of the central images of the book--the beating of a donkey...
...unfortunate incident described above, Ost started most of the Allentown teams' games last year at center forward, center half, or right fullback. He recovered from a sprained ankle in time to enter the playoffs at center forward--matched up against the Columbus Magic's 6-ft., 4-in. central defender Daniel Mamman--a tribute to Ost's strength and toughness...