Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the students here to believe that, given a chance, they could run the University ten times more effectively than the current administrators. It is another Harvard tradition for the people in charge never to allow the students any chance to find out if their suspicion is correct...
...twin girls, the other a girl by caesarean section. Two or three days later, one of the twins and the other baby girl were accidentally switched, apparently by immigrant nurses who had trouble reading the Hebrew name tags. An observant supervisor quickly returned the babies to their correct mothers. But the women were worried. One complained that the baby given her did not look familiar, while the caesarean baby's mother said that the baby she now had could not have been hers because it had marks indicating a normal birth. A doctor agreed, and there was a third...
...sealed container but had no idea what was in it either. The returning chimp would then press the appropriate button on the console, which would flash the lexigram for the food on the screen. If the other chimp understood and identified what he saw by also pressing the correct button, both chimps would be rewarded with the food. In one series of trials, Sherman and Austin got the message (and the snack) across to each other 60 out of 62 times...
Sadat quickly signaled his appreciation for Jerusalem's warning. On July 14, he had declared that Egypt would not establish diplomatic relations with Jerusalem for at least five years after a peace treaty was signed. Two days later, after Egyptian intelligence had confirmed that the Israeli information was correct, he announced: "Egypt is ready to sign a peace treaty with Israel that will guarantee Israel her place in the area." It was a momentous change, perhaps the first step toward his trip to Jerusalem four months later...
...ticket these days, but the Tribe is so amateurish they've been invited to send a delegation to the Olympics, so don't sweat it. Rumor has it that Bowie Kuhn actually forgot Cleveland is still in the major leagues, and the team certainly hasn't done much to correct that impression. Look for a scalping...