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...Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...thought the honor system was great. I don't ever remember seeing someone cheat," says Norma Jean T. Fix '54, now a resident of Marlborough, Massachusetts...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Radcliffe Honor | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

...with Iraq dissenting, decided to cut production and sell their various grades of oil at fixed prices averaging $18 per bbl. While the pact boosted market prices to near that level, the group may have trouble keeping them there. In the past, at least, its members have tended to cheat on such agreements and undermine their effectiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Topsy-Turvy | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...weeks ago, however, Conner fired a new -- and strange -- shot across New Zealand's bow. "There have been 78 aluminum 12-meters built, so why would you build one of fiber glass unless you wanted to cheat?" he asked at a press conference. Added Blackaller: "My engineers have told me for six years that you can't build a fiber-glass boat light and strong enough . . . under the rules." The Yacht Club Costa Smeralda of Sardinia, organizer of the challenger series, has not responded to the war of words. As a matter of normal procedure, however, it will remeasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Victory for Plastic Fantastic | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...workdays, obsessive research and a natural trader's ability to talk on several telephones at once. It was as if he had stored up millions of kilocalories of energy during his aimless years and was now unleashing them on an unwary Wall Street. "Boesky did not really need to cheat," observes Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens. And yet he did. His relentless drive to get an edge appears to have pushed him right over it. Boesky seemed to expect something like that might happen. "I can't predict my demise," he once said, "but I suspect it will occur abruptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Was the Only Way | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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