Word: circumventions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"When you walk into a room full of men," White says, "you can see them physically tense up. You can see it in their hands, the way they clench when you come in. It's frightening. I suppose affirmative action has had some effect, but I haven't seen evidence...
It is impossible to conceive of New York muddling its way through the automobile age without Robert Moses. For most of his 40 years in power, Moses was the only man in New York with the expertise and the influence to build large public works. Only Moses had the teams...
To circumvent any charges of discrimination and racism (so blatantly displayed in the third world panel) there were two black women panelists (out of almost 50 speakers) and one black ex-Undersecretary of HUD. But not a single white woman speaker could be found--although the GSD has educated women...
This incident of scientific fakery, described in C.P. Snow's 1960 novel The Affair, was fiction. But the drama now unfolding at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research is real. In 1970 Dr. William Summerlin, 35, reported that he had discovered a way that might make...
What transformed old faithful into a common scold was a series of federal safety regulations. As of January 1972, they required every new car to have a warning system that included a buzzer that screamed at the driver and front-seat passengers until they had fastened their seat belts. But...