Word: difference
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon realize but not report a capital gain on the sale of 23 acres of his San Clemente property in 1970? The White House has admitted that the President's financial advisers differ on this point. Coopers & Lybrand, the firm called in recently to audit NIXon's accounts, figured that he had a capital gain of $117,370. But Nixon followed the counsel of his usual tax accountant, Arthur Blech, who reckoned that there was no gain. Blech made some admittedly arbitrary valuations of the 5.9 acres of property and the grand house that Nixon retained...
...finances, his friendships, his correspondence-none of which produced any evidence of misconduct. At his confirmation hearings, Witness Ford came across as a banal speaker, but he also impressed his questioners with his openness, candor and competence in the glare of sudden attention. More, he did not hesitate to differ with Nixon's approach on several important matters. He urged the White House to produce all documents that would be necessary to clear the President. When asked what he would do if, like Prosecutor Cox, he had been ordered to submit to a "compromise" that would cut off further...
...trait in any population at any time there is more or less variation. This variation arises because different individuals differ from each other genetically and because they have experienced up to that moment different environmental histories. In an attempt to partition the causes of the variation, geneticists have introduced the concept of heritability. Unfortunately, there are two different quantities, both of which are called "heritability" in genetics, but which have quite different meanings and consequences. There has been a considerable confusion between the two in the popular literature of the subject, a confusion that has considerable consequences and to which...
...accepted proposal students will choose three courses from a range of studies that differ from the usual Yale curriculum...
...seven CCA/Common Slate candidates for School Committee can be characterized as budding young pols--walking the streets, talking to "the people." But how do these young pols differ from their older opponents? The reformers like the independents derive support from a political machine...