Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee also disagreed over how much final exams should count under the option. Michael Walsh '83, a nonvoting member of CUE, said a final counting 25 per cent of a student's course grade--as Nagy's proposal suggests--would play too small a role in determining a coursewide grade, adding, "What matters is what you know at the end of the course. In some cases it should be 100 per cent...
...understand the war's impact on the Soviet Union. The "Great Patriotic War" cost the Soviet people twenty million lives and probably twice that number in wounded. During the Nazi blockade, 770,000 people starved to death in Leningrad alone--a figure greater than the total battle casualty count of the United States and Great Britain combined. Because roughly three times more men died in the conflict than women, there currently exists nearly an entire generation of elderly women who never married and whose presence is felt throughout Soviet society. The ever-present babushka is always telling complete strangers...
...members must keep "a sense of the total person" in mind, says Conant. It is easy, but often harmful, to think of a patient only in terms of his illness, Conant believes, saying, "It's important to remember that you are dealing with a person, not just a platelet count." Howe stresses the need for all those involved with a terminally ill patient to show humor and perspective. He believes that his emotional state, as much as his physical state, helped affect his recovery...
...about his two co-stars in ... All the Marbles, a movie due out next summer. In it, Falk plays the fast-talking manager of two gorgeous lady wrestlers (Newcomers Vicki Frederick, 28, and Laurene Landon, 23). Not bad for a guy whose Columbo series is down for the count...
Lane Kirkland, 58, AFL-CIO president, on the plethora of Democratic presidential hopefuls: "I can count about twelve people who are showing signs of delusions of adequacy...