Word: containing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult to argue with human nature: people will continue to gamble as they continued to drink some 50 years ago. But like its offspring--the lottery--dog racing takes money from the poor instead of taking the rich. And if you think sports doesn't contain the lessons of life, keep the economics of dog racing in mind...
...whether documentation existed showing that all union agreements with the University contain no discriminatory clauses...
Jordan High School in Los Angeles is virtually a ghetto within a ghetto. Located on 103rd Street, it is bounded on one side by the Jordan Downs housing projects-two-story, ash gray buildings that contain 2,200 families, most of them on welfare. To the east is Alameda Street, the border of Watts, and there are railroad tracks on Alameda, so that when you cross them you know you are entering a different world. In back of Jordan and extending around it in an L-shape is the steel factory. It has been there for 20 years, the smoke...
...President Bok's statement announcing the 2.5 to 1 plan. Bok wrote at that time: "In order to accommodate the added students, efforts would be made to provide new housing through methods of financing that would remove the need to raise substantial capital gifts. Such housing might not contain all the special features associated with a Harvard or Radcliffe House. Instead, an effort would be made in consultation with interested students to develop new housing styles attractive to the small minority that will inevitably prefer alternatives to any form of accommodations, even one as attractive as our Houses provide...
...body of the book pursues -through every novel, play and story, good, bad or silly, that Maugham ever wrote - Calder's all-purpose insight that Maugham was preoccupied with the escape from bondage. Calder has dis covered, for example, that "examined in their entirety, Maugham's works contain over 300 images concerned with liberty or enslavement...