Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the possible exception of the team itself, few had expected such a blowout. And after a loosely played first period dominated by sloppiness and missed opportunities on both sides, neither squad was in control...
Harvard's quest for the Eastern Seaboard swimming crown was not an easy task. Bernal, assuming control over the Crimson aquatic program in April 1977, faced several major obstacles...
...charge that the I.R.A. will eventually attack the Irish Republic: The main aim of this phase of the struggle is to remove the British [from Ulster] and to create conditions where the Irish people, in a united Ireland, can establish social democracy with complete control over their own destiny. The movement wants to see the creation of a decentralized socialist state. Obviously, even the term united Ireland means that the government that has been set up in the Republic must come down. The working-class majority from Ulster-Protestants and Catholics-don't simply want to be absorbed into...
...widespread ambivalence about the return of electroconvulsive treatment was evident at a psychiatric conference this fall in Britain. While demonstrators picketed outside the meeting carrying placards reading ECT WAS APPROVED IN BUCHENWALD and CONTROL PSYCHIATRY WHILE YOU STILL HAVE A MIND TO, doctors inside reported that fully half of ECT patients questioned in a survey feared the treatment less than going to the dentist...
...back. Last week Carter's anti-inflation czar, Alfred Kahn, admitted that his earlier hopes for the nation to be out of double-digit inflation by next spring have been eliminated by increases in oil prices and mortgage rates. Kahn argued that inflation will not be brought under control so long as OPEC continues raising the cost of crude and the U.S. remains dependent on foreign oil. As a means of lessening that reliance, he said, the Administration had been considering a 500 per gal. gasoline tax and even gasoline rationing...