Word: followed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College's division into intellectual have's and have not's, and because it deprives many students of an educational opportunity from which they might benefit greatly. Many of the students who leave the Honors program do so, not because of incapability or laziness, but because they prefer to follow interests they consider more rewarding than academic specialization. But tutorials opportunities for informal discussion and close contact with a tutor can profit these students as well as those in honors...
...fist fight with Dawson, touched off an uproar that a pistol-packing state trooper had to break up. But when things had quieted down, the meeting brought unexpected results. Mayor Godfrey, Dawson & Co. agreed to traffic studies by the Georgia Highway Department, agreed as well to follow the department's recommendations about correct behavior for the Ludowici light...
...scientific visitors pretty well agreed that Communism's rigid dogmas do not seriously confine Russian scientists. In their laboratories their minds are free, and if they are in an officially favored science, they are almost as free to follow their favorite projects as U.S. scientists are. Said Physicist Robert Erode of the University of California at Berkeley: "People can compartmentalize their minds. The argument that there can be no creative science in a restricted society has not held water." Most U.S. visitors agree that Russian scientists are less restricted by political ideology than by the rigid hierarchies...
...wives were quick to retort. Said one heatedly: "Some of those Korean marriages are just sordid commercial arrangements. Many G.I.s who marry Korean girls never attempt to have their wives follow them when they leave Korea. The marriage was just a black-market partnership in the first place." A PX official backed up part of her complaint: "I have seen a Korean wife walk out laden with packages-and be back within an hour to buy more...
Only when the drinker refuses treatment or returns to steady elbow-bending is he fired. "An employer who frequently threatens termination, but does not follow through, furthers the alcoholic's continued drinking," Dr. D'Alonzo believes. "Sometimes this act [of firing] is the trigger that suddenly brings the alcoholic to his senses...