Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American League Eastern Division race ended the only way it should have ended yesterday, with "baseball's Athens and Sparta" meeting at the Pass at Fenway to stage the ultimate epic and write a decisive final chapter to a title and a season that were undecided throughout...
Edward O. Wilson is probably the most controversial entomologist of all time. Three years ago, the Harvard professor published a mammoth academic tome, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, arguing that social behavior has a biological base. The first 26 chapters on organisms and lower animals attracted little attention, but the final, almost offhand chapter on humans touched off the furor. Wilson speculated that the sexual division of labor is genetically based, genes may exist for homosexuality and spite, and a "loose correlation" is likely between genetically determined traits and worldly success. For his pains, Wilson was heckled, picketed and denounced...
...turning a chapter now... I'm 35 and there are those two major projects wrapping up now. I don't know what's next. The choice is to go off by myself and write or stay in show biz, try to get into some sort of team project. It would be hard for me to write something long and serious while staying in that New York-Los Angeles axis," he says...
...latest chapter in the long and arduous relationship between Harvard's teaching hospitals and a local service employees union this past summer ended in a rare victory for the union...
...urban-area Jaycees see as the organization's dominant rural conservatism. Massachusetts Jaycees officials have voted to battle the no-women order with a lawsuit, even though a 1974 ruling by a federal appeals court upheld the group's right to ban women. Leaders of the all-male Louisville chapter, largest in the organization (735 members), have called for admission of females. So, less surprisingly, has the Chicago chapter (234 men, 136 women), which withdrew from the national organization in protest. Complains Chapter President Joan Petranovich, a secretary: "The Jaycees are hypocritical. Here is a group trying to help people...