Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown Jr., the biggest national figure to support a convention publicly, wants to place a balanced budget requirement into the Constitution as a philosophical symbol of national discipline; but congressional budget-makers each year would have to work with that symbol, which could never be thorough enough to cover the wealth of specific problems in a national budget. Nor could it be specific enough to discourage innovative congressional accountants from balancing the budget to the letter but not the spirit of the amendment...
Lyons said Boston-Boston drops the cover charge for Harvard-Radcliffe students because "It's our way of saying thank you for all the parties they've held here...
Jeffrey Binder, general counsel of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), said Tuesday, "I guess it is discrimination, but the [public accommodations] statutes don't cover discrimination on the basis of which college you go to." He said that for this reason the MCAD does not have jurisdiction over the matter...
...nine, I took in an old CBS favorite, MASH, which, unfortunately is now showing its age. The plot, stretched thinly to cover the endless series of wisecracks from the ever-genial Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda), concerned the creation of an independent state in the camp saloon. MASH has developed a company, much like that of the lamented Mary Tyler Moore Show, which can sustain an occasional weak plot. After Flatbush, even mere competency would seem like The Tempest...
Asimov's Guide to Science (Basic Books, $17.95 hard-cover). One of the byproducts of scientific advance is the widening chasm between specialists and laymen. Indeed, even those who live in the research laboratory are likely to get lost when they leave their own rooms. This work is a flashlight that can help keep everyone from stumbling around in the dark. The author knows his way around the physical and biological sciences, and he manages to set a pace that will neither intimidate beginners nor cause those with a little knowledge to yawn. Science Authority Asimov...