Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specialist at the National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta pointed out that there were as yet no verified reports of illness in the U.S. due to paraquat-sprayed grass. Some experts speculated that there might be less harm in smoking paraquat than in swallowing the chemical in liquid form. "There's no doubt that paraquat causes pulmonary fibrosis when taken orally," observes a California lung physiologist, Dr. Jeff Golden, "but there's a gap as far as knowing what to expect with inhalation." Exploring the medical literature, Golden noted a report that Malaysian farm workers who accidentally...
...banks and mortgage lenders now offer solar loans. The New England Merchants National Bank of Boston recently introduced a maximum $10,000, low-interest Energy Saver's Loan, and the San Diego Federal Savings and Loan Association offers low down-payment mortgages for new houses that use some form of solar power. The Bank of America has made about 2,000 loans, totaling more than $3 million, on its solar financing program, almost all of them in California, where Governor Jerry Brown's ambitious program of state income tax credits and other incentives has kept demand among...
...that the Council of Owls was involved in another meadow in a far off land called Aparkside, where the white sheep lived high off the hog (excuse the metaphor) by making the black sheep work really hard for them. And the white sheep wouldn't let the black sheep form a flock, and made them eat bad apples that caused many of the little lambs to die before they grew up. The Vard Council of Owls had a deal with the Aparkside rulers, in which Aparkside rulers like the John the Horsester gave Vard money for owning a great deal...
Woodrow Wilson would have loved it. In their largest plebiscite in recent years, the inhabitants of the land of Harvard College self-determined the form of government they hope will rule them...
...manner towards the repressive minority government in South Africa, the Corporation continues to passively support the systematic subjugation of South African blacks. The Corporation magnanimously agrees that apartheid is reprehensible, yet refuses to do what little it can to hasten its end. No one believes that divestiture, in any form, by the University would signal the economic death-knell of South Africa, but the Corporation fails to take into account the moral value any divestiture would have. In the end, the Corporation has proven once again that Harvard is more of a business than a place of education and values...