Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government has candidly acknowledged the crisis. Not long after his election, President Carter met with HEW Secretary Joseph Califano and a group of college presidents to discuss problems of higher education. In the fall, HEW launched Operation Common Sense, a comprehensive effort to review, simplify and recodify regulations. Last week, in a further effort to bring a number of widely scattered programs under one roof, Carter proposed the establishment of a new Department of Education...
...only natural that sociobiologists cannot discuss the very crucial issues of the debate on the worth of such a field. Sociobiologists are not philosophers, or--contrary to their beleif-- sociologists or social theorists. They can search futily for human evidence of their theories, and I wish them luck, but they will never have the final word on the more philosophical questions that are inherent in the debate...
...week, barring a last-minute change of plans, President Jimmy Carter was to make his first substantive statement about an issue that suddenly has become the nation's No. 1 worry: inflation. In a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, Carter was also to discuss some of the nation's other pressing economic problems: energy and the fall in value of the dollar overseas. But the stress was to be on combatting the rise in prices that threatens to undermine all the achievements of the Administration in promoting economic growth and reducing unemployment...
...America gets out of the industrial revolution, baseball is taking on a resurgence, people are more into a laidback type of sit down and relax and enjoy a beer, discuss politics, watch a ball game, you can do everything at the same time!" he said smoothly...
...last contract between Harvard and the MTC expired last December; however, the University and the union have consented to extend the agreement so that the employees are still working under the terms of that contract. The two sides met once in February, and once more on March 10 to discuss the issues. Since then, there has been no negotiating. Powers had said he hoped for a meeting during the first week of April, and Costello had also hinted at that possibility; but nothing developed...