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Since 1981 industrial policy has developed into a center of the nation's debate over the government's proper role in the economy. Controversies within the young field encompass problems of definition, scope, and feasibility...
...almost continual creative activity of an intellect who towered so far above his society, and yet continually communicated with it and seemed to adapt to it, but who lived in it as a stranger, a condition neither he nor his circle could encompass; who grew ever more deeply estranged, never suspecting it himself until the end of his life, and making light of it until the very end--our imagination cannot accommodate such a phenomenon...
...sophomores there announced last month that they were making plans for a game that would encompass the entire university area, involving more than 100 students in a continuous elimination game that would end only when the last "killer" had successful "hit" the last "victim...
...level that straight dental technology does not provide." As Goldhaber sees it, dental medicine should eventually become "a hybrid--combining the art and science of dentistry with biomedical research or with knowledge of health-care delivery systems." In short, the school now seeks to train practitioners whose skills encompass not only dentistry but also the broader field of social medicine...
...University degree holders will be eligible to vote for six new Directors this spring, who will join the 87 other Directors of the HAA in coordinating alumni activities that encompass fundraising, reunions, Visiting committees, and commencements...