Word: duking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard men's basketball team gets a taste of the high life tonight, when nationally ranked Duke invades Briggs Athletic Center. The Crimson, which defeated Brown over the weekend but lost at Yale, is currently 8-10 overall, 3-4 in the Ivy League. Duke holds a 4-0 series record over Harvard. The Crimson has traveled to Durham, N.C. for the past two seasons, dropping each contests by more than 25 points. At home, however, Harvard has fared slightly better. In 1983-'84, the last time the Blue Devils came to Briggs, the home-town hoopsters lost...
...more spot on the Board, wheremembers usually serve for six years.) Thesecandidates bring impressive resumes as well as apro-divestment position to the race. They are: NewYork City Councilor Ruth Messenger '62. ConsulWashington, counsel to the House Committee onEnergy and commerce, Peter D. Wood '64, aprofessor of history at Duke University, VictorSidel, a physician and social activist, JeromeGrossman '38, an activist for liberal causes andMassachusetts businessman, and Harold Burns, viceprovost of the City College of New York...
...RESPECT" Edited by Dorothy Commins; Duke University...
...wouldn't call [Coopers and Lybrand] a neutral party," said Peter Wood '64, a history professor at Duke University, and one of this year's candidates...
...problem: vaccines for any disease must eventually be tested on healthy humans. What if volunteers accept the vaccine, then risk exposure and come down with the disease? That would prove the vaccine ineffective but, in the case of AIDS, could prove fatal. Says Dr. Michael Cairns of the Duke Medical Center in Durham, N.C.: "You can't arbitrarily expose a group of people to a virus to see if the vaccine is protective." Moreover, the behavior of the AIDS virus is so complex and unpredictable that a vaccine based on a derivative of the virus could itself be dangerous...