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Just when the President and Congress were eyeball to eyeball on economic and energy policy, both sides seemed to blink. Collision was giving way to compromise last week as the Democrats speedily hammered out a tax cut not too dissimilar to Gerald Ford's proposal. Even though the White House and Capitol Hill were still at sharp odds over an energy package, everyone involved seemed to be looking out of the corner of his eye for an escape from the impasse. "I am more than willing to cooperate," Ford told a group of Democratic congressional leaders. "I believe there...
THIS AFTERNOON the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life will vote on a proposal by Zeph Stewart, master of Lowell House, to end the one-to-one male-female ratio at the Quadrangle Houses. Stewart contends that sex quotas should be eliminated because they "make the Houses dissimilar," and represent a form of possible coercive "social engineering." The enforced ratios, Stewart believes, are merely arbitrary criteria that end up depriving people of the freedom to decide where they want to live...
...occasionally be appropriate to discuss what the nation's news organizations have in common, but they are as dissimilar as snowflakes in their size, influence, outlook, purpose, ownership and audience. That diversity is too of ten overlooked these days, as the editors of CJR proved convincingly in the same issue. Not counting Bailey's one-page lament, the word "media" is used at least 24 times as a monolithic collective, and two of those references are grammatically faulty...
...course's super-narrow fairways were an unfair test or because they wanted to tune their games for the up-coming PGA Championship. Johnny Miller, former U.S. Open and British Open Champion Tony Jacklin, and tour veteran Grier Jones had withdrawn from the tournament for a variety of dissimilar reasons, while such stars as Bert Yancey, Frank Beard and Bob Goalby had failed to make the 36-hole cut of 148 (six over par on the 7305-yard, par 71 Pleasant Valley course). Even so, the chances of Killer's man Victor Whatchamacallit winning the tournament seemed pretty slim...
...physician and teacher who is now president of Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Thomas is also a gifted writer with wit, imagination and a bold, encouraging vision of both man and nature. His main theme is symbiosis, the intimate association between even the most dissimilar organisms. For example, he points out that bacteria called rhizobia live in the roots of bean plants and enable them to utilize the nitrogen in the soil; without these parasites the plants would die. There are also viruses-small, independent packets of nucleic acids -which Thomas believes may have helped man evolve...