Word: classing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This morning Lawrence is bound for Nogales with Partner Bill Morgan to give a lecture on tracking. The class is a mix of state narcs, Tucson cops and customs officers. Lawrence and his desert lore are a curiosity to most of the audience. But they know his specialty means more than following a fleeing outlaw. Carefully catalogued tire tracks and footprints can be used as evidence in court. Twelve people were convicted in the Norman-Taylor case simply because Lawrence linked tire tracks and footprints to the drug cache, the airplane flying that night, and other trucks used for hauling...
...years, the great American promise was not a chicken in every pot but a big car in every garage. No more. With fuel prices edging into three digits, buyers have been thinking less about class and more about gas. As a result, car lots are clogged with 2 million unsold autos, many of them yesterday's glamorous giants, and dealers have become desperate...
...intellectual leader of the young economists is Harvard's Feldstein, a soft-spoken family man from The Bronx, whose looks and middle-class background and mannerisms call to mind a benign dentist. While most of his peers remain academically cloistered, concentrating on the higher mathematics and econometric concepts of modern research, Feldstein is at home in both academe and Government. He is equally comfortable pondering a regression equation for a computer program or testifying to a congressional committee, which he often does. Both political parties eagerly seek his counsel. He was an adviser to Jimmy Carter's '76 campaign, turned...
...documentary aired last month, a young Birmingham Asian, Tony Huq, expressed his generation's mood of defiance: "Gone are the days when we didn't even make a whimper. Gone are the days when we kept quiet about discrimination. Gone are the days when we accepted second-class citizenship...
...half of the course (when the merits of the tools become dubious) with more section meetings, where the tools could be applied and evaluated in simulations. Moreover, in the lectures that are kept, Fisher should invite more guest speakers. Last year, the former mayor of Jerusalem visited the class...