Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever to keep a transmitted secret. But now the code breakers may finally have met their match. As a result of recent work by Stanford University scientists, ciphers that are for all practical purposes unbreakable can be produced easily. Says Scientific American Mathematics Columnist Martin Gardner: "The breakthrough bids fair to revolutionize the entire field of secret communication...
...well as many singles who feel the mere presence of children will cramp their swinging lifestyle. The policy also makes economic sense to landlords for whom tenants' children can create maintenance problems. But what are young parents to do? Says Dora Ashford, director of the Los Angeles Fair Housing for Children Coalition: "People with children are a desperate class of renter right...
...teenager, Warren threw away the books. He was only a fair student but was captain of his high school football team and president of his class. He quit Northwestern University after his freshman year and moved to New York to study acting. Then as now, Beatty kept professional distance between himself and his sister. He told interviewers that "nobody likes to be in somebody else's shadow." He was also far from certain that he wanted the flashy career she already...
...that they must be shared by three teams; Yvette has to retrieve her uniform from a volleyball player to pose for photographs. Says Holden: "If she was a young man and had this kind of potential and ability, there would be no question. But she doesn't get a fair shake." Fair or not, it is Yvette Lewis' best chance: "I'm going to stay with basketball and go as far as I can go with...
...tutor said there were some questions raised over whether several of the students would do better in general examinations to be given next year, and whether it was fair to fail students whom the department had been passing in courses for four years...