Word: controllable
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Raising the drinking age to 21 has also made it difficult for the College to enforce a uniform alcohol policy, says Bossert. Since some students are able to drink and others are not, police cannot simply concentrate on parties that go out of control, he says...
...federal Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta predicts that AIDS will affect between 10,000 and 20,000 children under 13 by 1992, and 80 percent of these cases will involve prenatal transmission...
...also admitted that the Soviet radar station in Krasnoyarsk violated the U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. The Soviets said last month that it would be dismantled, ending a dispute that soured U.S.-Soviet arms control talks for years...
Weber said the NSF withdrew its support, about $10 million annually, when the parent company of the von Neumann computer manufacturer disbanded the subsidiary. Control Data Corporation decided to "pull the plug" on ETA System, maker of the supercomputer, the NSF director said. He did not elaborate...
...from Tuscarora, rancher Robin Van Norman drives a visitor into a verdant canyon sited down by U.S. Forest Service land in the Independence Mountains. Until gold was discovered, the Van Normans owned the rights to graze their cattle there. Now, on the very fence they built to control their herd, the Freeport-McMoRan Gold Co. has posted a big KEEP OUT sign. Waste rock from the mining operation has begun pushing toward the canyon like a moraine advancing at the prow of a glacier...