Word: circumventions
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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...
Several groups charged that the Corporation had, in fact, overruled or attempted to circumvent the Faculty proposal to eliminate ROTC privileges at the university. They demanded that ROTC be abolished immediately,. Amid protest, President Pusey and other Ivy League presidents tried ardently to negotiate new contracts with the Defense Department...
The fall term in Cambridge had gone by quickly. It was some sort of indicator that Stevens found it more and more difficult to awaken each day in time for lunch. There was not a lot to get him out of bed. By the time undergraduates reach senior year, they...