Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kirkland House will open its first annual wrist-wrestling competition tonight to raise money for a scholarship fund established in honor of Andrew Puopolo '77, the football player killed in a Boston Combat Zone fight last November...
...sense of urgency about the energy situation will take considerable powers of persuasion ? but then, Jimmy Carter seems as adept at using the bully pulpit of the presidency to persuade people as anyone since Teddy Roosevelt and his distant cousin Franklin. Carter seems almost to relish the coming combat. As he said last week, he intends to "convince the American people of the truth, using whatever means that I have at my command." Added Carter: "I believe that when they see the truth, they will cooperate in trying to cut down the waste of energy." This...
...outcome of the Kearney case, and others likely to follow, is difficult to predict. When-and indeed if-the case actually comes to trial, notes Washington Attorney Edward P. Morgan, it will still be doubtful "whether an American jury will convict an FBI man for trying to combat terrorism...
...help combat the shortage of full-fledged veterinarians, many vet schools are also offering two-year courses that turn out animal paramedics who are qualified to aid veterinarians. But as the food supply becomes more critical, more trained vets will be needed in the large-animal field. Thus some experts predict that if vet-school enrollment (now about 8,000) is not expanded soon, there could be a scarcity by 1980. Says John Welser, vet-school dean at Michigan State: "There are only 30,000 vets to protect the total food supply in this country, while we graduate...
Robin L. Leidner '79, who will discuss a paper about the beginning of the birth control movement, said she had chosen to participate in the program partly to help combat the idea that women's issues aren't acceptable subjects to research...