Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts Attorney General's Office last week dropped its investigation into charges that the University acted fraudulently in the Board of Overseers elections during the past two years...
...General Manager: Barbara M. Mrkonic...
...least. The Dow now stands 729 points, or 27%, below its August peak of 2722. In terms of lost value, U.S. stocks remain $850 billion below their recent high. Moreover, while many big shots may be persuaded that the market is safe to re-enter, the general population will not soon forget the spectacle of Wall Streeters in a panic. Consumer confidence shows signs of flagging at just the wrong time, the beginning of the Christmas retailing season...
Wolfe has been chronicling the behavior of the city's haves and have-mores since 1962, when he joined the New York Herald Tribune as a general-assignment reporter and quickly became the main attraction of the newspaper's Sunday magazine supplement. His timing, like his trademark white suit, was impeccable and dramatic. After two-stepping through the Eisenhower era, America was ready to rock 'n' roll. Wolfe covered the arrival of the Beatles for their first U.S. tour and caught the moment with a description of hysterical fans throbbing like alien protoplasm against the plate glass of the airport...
...single Pseudomonas among the billion or so microorganisms that may exist in a thimbleful of soil. Explains Margaret Mellon, manager of the National Wildlife Federation's biotechnology project: "This system is an important advance. In and of itself, it doesn't answer questions about whether bioengineered organisms are in general more or less safe than their natural counterparts. But it allows you to answer some of the questions. The marker system puts a little identity tag on the organism...