Word: givens
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...calculation is based on the observation that in a specific group of people carrying the AIDS virus, a certain percentage will develop symptoms within a given period of time. For example, it appears that roughly 6% will come down with the disease in the second year after infection. Since the Government has accurate figures on how many people have developed AIDS, Hay was able to work backward to figure out the number of those who carry the virus...
...Censorship is not the issue," said anti-Mitznademonstrator John Welsh, a graduate of HarvardMedical School. "Mitzna can have free speech, buthe does not deserve the honor that the Universityhas given...
Past prizes have been used to encourage human rights activists and support peace efforts. Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa won in 1983; the 1987 prize went to President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica for his Central American peace plan; the United Nations' peacekeeping forces were given last year's award...
...affidavit signed by Jeanne F. Theoharis '91, another Perspective writer and president of SWAT, states that she was given permission to use the garden in April of 1988. She says in her statement that she asked Ellen Hatfield Towne, then-assistant to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, if it were necessary to mark the boundary between Harvard property and club property. Hatfield said that this was not necessary, Theoharis says...
Schmidt told The Yale Daily News this week thatthe report "strikes an appropriate note of graveconcern about the situation and about thedifficulty of quick and substantial programs,given the realities of the problem of availableapplicants...