Word: cum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Production of the MX continues even though the Administration has no plan for basing it. There is little chance that the Reagan team will devise a viable method of deployment--it spent several months last year trying to dream up an alternative to the Carter Administration's race-tract-cum-shell game proposal--making the mobile missile a colossal waste of money or a very expensive bargaining chip to be traded off in some distant strategic arms reduction talks...
...Junior Prize Fellow from Harvard on leave from the army, he supplemented his Medical School work with major research on the metamorphosis of grant moths. The war ended before the army could make use of his skills, but he finished Med School anyway and received his M D summa cum laude the second person in the history of the Med School to do so. He decided not to continue with medicine because he wanted to do research on a full-time basis at Harvard, and he joined the Faculty as Zoology professor in 1946 and was promoted to tenure...
...corporate power and avarice, from feudalism through the Pullman strike and on to the "hogs" "David Stockman watched feed on the carcass of the New Deal this summer. And there is the horror of so many individual lives without purpose: the grinding misery of the hopelessly poor: the Valium cum General Hospital somnambulism of the "comfortable...
However, Sidney Verba '53, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education and CUE chairman, postponed action on another motion that would require the registrar to drop a magna or cum laude candidate's two lowest half-course grades when calculating grade point averages. The "drop" rule would not apply to summa candidates...
...members spent over an hour debating whether the drop rule would merely complicate the present system, offer new opportunities for students to "manipulate" the system, or allow students to graduate magna or cum laude even after receiving...