Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd complains that the President's energy program "was not thought out." He also feels that Carter states lofty goals, then fails to follow through; that he is trying too much without knowing enough. As Byrd told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil, "He's getting good on-the-job training, but he has so little experience that there may not be time to learn enough...
Secret Papers. Whatever the merits of the debate about the monarch's value, Elizabeth has worked hard at her job-traveling, appearing constantly at ceremonial openings, carefully studying the secret government papers in the red "boxes" (leather dispatch cases) that follow her wherever she goes. The seven Prime Ministers who have served her have attested to her impressive grasp of state affairs. Despite the rigid order of palace life, she has tried in small ways to make the monarchy a bit more modern socially-with her walkabouts, for example, or by substituting relatively egalitarian garden parties for the stratified...
...Foundation who wrote his doctoral dissertation under Fairbank, says "One of the things that is astonishing about this person is that as a mentor and guide and guru he adopts different styles for different disciples and clearly develops in his own mind different routes and timetables his mentees could follow...
...into Harvard's academic life, the College seems to be making what it considers a concerted effort to move departments and offices there. Social Studies, once ensconced in the Radcliffe Yard on Brattle St., will be in the basement of Hilles Library next fall, and others seem likely to follow...
Most students said they did not feel pressured by their parents to choose particular fields. However, parents encouraged students to choose careers early, so they would not wander through school lost. Students with parents in particular professions have been influenced to follow their parents' footsteps. Very few said they were motivated by financial reasons. Many students indicated that they could have plunged rather easily into any two of the three fields scrutinized. Some others based their final decisions on summer work in the field. Others cautioned us--quite rightly, we believe--that their immediate choices may not necessarily reflect their...