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...most demographers contend that even if such an increase occurred, it would be temporary. "Any upturn in the birth rate would be just another fluctuation around the major continuing downward trend," says Philip Hauser, director of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago. "It would fend off zero population growth a little longer, not forever...
...defense lawyers also contend that the indictments invade the right to privacy between a physician and patient. All motions will be debated in preliminary hearings before a judge not yet named and at a time not yet decided. "These constitutional questions are our strongest hope prior to trial," Neil L. Chayet, Charles's attorney, said last week...
Some students would dispute that the meals they are served represent "the utmost in excellent food"--the goal set by the food services in Hall's administrative handbook. And given the continuing inflation with which every household must contend, students expecting this year's $80 board hike to improve the quality of their meals should probably expect to be disappointed...
Harvard made it plain from the beginning that it was in no way responsible for the "Annex." But in 1893 President Charles W. Eliot and the Fellows of Harvard College realized that they would have to contend with "X College...
Test Miles. Automakers contend that test data are still insufficient to prove the safety and reliability of air bags. Transportation Department experts disagree. They contend that hundreds of accidents involving air-bag-equipped autos have conclusively shown that bags protect drivers from serious injury even in high-speed crashes. They also claim that tests have banished two early fears about the bags: that they would inflate accidentally when there was no collision, and that they might pop open with such force as to injure children. In millions of test miles driven, that just has not happened. The bags do have...