Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fallows' jump into the Carter camp is hardly his most dramatic political change-of-heart. He came to Harvard the product of a conservative, pro-Goldwater California town 70 miles east of Los Angeles, with the requisite chunk of Ayn Rand reading under his belt. "As (politically) juvenile as everybody else" in his class, he adds. He is not, he says now, embarrassed about his enthusiastic support of the Republican. Like many of his classmates Fallows soon was swept up by the anti-war movement. He recalls that he began to doubt the right-wing, pro-war legacy...
...that time, unfortunately, the speakers had lost a chunk of their audience. Few viewers who had sat through the first 82 minutes could claim that they had gained refreshing new insights into economic problems and policies. Said Harvard's Otto Eckstein, a liberal member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "I've got to teach freshman economics on Monday and I'd be hard put to find something useful in the debate to teach them. The candidates just completely missed a grand educational opportunity." Yale's Robert Triffin, another member of TIME'S Board, found the debate "desperately dull...
...biggest chunk of government research funds went to the Medical School last year. Med School researchers had more than $25 million to work with last year, 94 per cent of which came from the United States Public Health Service. Research monies make up more than 80 per cent of the Med School's operating costs...
...delegations to watch included Mississippi, whose members were expected to arrive in Kansas City still intent on giving all of its 30 votes to one candidate under a unit rule; but if some members did break ranks, Reagan would still need a big chunk of the delegation to keep his chances alive. On the other side, any Ford slippage in the big Northeast delegations-New York (154), Pennsylvania (103) and New Jersey (67)-would provide tip-offs that the President's shaky delegate edge might not hold. The votes of uncommitted delegates in Illinois, West Virginia and Wyoming would...
...trouble began last February, when Amin claimed a large chunk of Kenyan territory and made veiled threats to take it by force. Then came the raid on Entebbe in July, when Kenya added to Amin's ire by allowing Israel to refuel its planes in Nairobi. After several hundred Kenyans living in Uganda were reported murdered in retaliation, Kenyan border guards began halting the fuel trucks. Amin last week appealed to the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity for aid to counter the blockade, which he warned "may force Uganda to resort to desperate action...