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...impossible -but then again, that is the author's trademark. It was Microbiologist Commoner who most convincingly alerted Americans to the environmental crisis (TIME cover, Feb. 2, 1970). It was also Commoner who first suggested-in his 1971 bestseller The Closing Circle-that U.S. industry be restructured to conform to ecology's unbending laws. Specifically, he recommended that polluting products (detergents, for example, or synthetic textiles) be replaced by good old natural ones (soap, or cotton and wool). Just how to accomplish such a major switch in industrial direction Commoner did not say and of course not much...
Maher said he was not sure if students were also reacting to the department's efforts to develop more rigorous standards, which he said do not conform to the view of many students that the field is an "easy major." FIELD '79 '78 ECONOMICS 158 160 BIOLOGY 138 142 GOVERNMENT 134 114 HISTORY 130 121 ENGLISH 92 96 BIOCHEM 88 64 P&SR 81 96 HIST&LIT 51 44 ENGINEERING 44 39 SOC STUD...
Other students complained that the Employment Office's plan to award the jobs according to a strict ratio--with one-third of the positions going to students who do not receive financial aid--does not conform with its usual policy of giving preference to those who have demonstrated their financial need...
...medical institute. From 1964 to 1973, Hughes Medical received $21.6 million from the company; in the same period it gave back $8.8 million to Hughes Aircraft as repayment of a loan and spent only $8.8 million for medical research. Until now, the IRS has not compelled it to conform to the 1969 Tax Reform Act, which requires private foundations to disburse a fixed percentage of their assets. In the wake of Hughes' death, the Government may take a much closer look at the medical institute...
Even when he confronts his backsliding contemporaries, the theocrat of 1690 overleaps the present into the legendary past and the prophetic future. He offers a test not of perception but of symbiotic identification, and he succeeds not because the facts conform but because the rhetoric compels...