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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remember--This is for real. Take a few minutes and cruise on in. Twenty to 30 correct answers will probably put you at the head of the class. So get the lead out [a pencil] and sit down. This is your life...

Author: By Tom Aronson and Bill Scheft, S | Title: Crimson Sports Cube Disc Frisk | 1/21/1977 | See Source »

...every ten years; since no one can predict what a new virus will look like, flu immunization is a chancy business. (Since the virus changes so frequently, flu immunization is also a profitable business for a few drug companies.) Officials at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta were correct in assuming that this year, or next, or the one after a new strain of influenza would appear, but they were wrong in believing they could finally prevent a flu epidemic. The odds of predicting correctly what new strain will appear are small; when it arrives, in other words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flu Flop | 1/19/1977 | See Source »

...academic credentials". The report emphasizes the need to include students in the selection of faculty as well as the development of the new program, in light of "the students' high degree of interest, knowledge and competence in this emerging, and in some ways, unique field of study". Rosovsky was correct when he said in American Scholar in the fall of 1969 that his report was widely acclaimed and widely accepted throughout the University. In his article entitled "Black Studies at Harvard", he continued by expressing disbelief that events made the reversal they did soon after his report. But he ignored...

Author: By Peter Hardie and Bruce Jacobs, S | Title: On the Brink: Afro-American Studies At Harvard | 1/18/1977 | See Source »

...narrowest sense, Carter is correct in insisting that he promised nothing more than that during the campaign. But without question he did leave many voters, including highly sophisticated ones, with the impression that he had promised an absolute reduction in defense spending-and was now reneging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Shakedown Cruise for the Carter Crew | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...appeared to want to style himself as a compromiser who would rule by deft negotiation among the factions within China's complex ruling bureaucracy. People's Daily, speaking for Hua the compromiser, had often advocated "treating the disease to save the patient," that is, allowing opponents a chance to correct their errors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hua's 1977 Resolution: More Purges | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

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