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Word: halfs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just over half of Cambridge voters went to the polls today, a "moderate" turnout that could boost the fortunes of liberal candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Elections Draw Moderate Turnout at Polls | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

...Standing Committee on the Core yesterday said it will keep the Core requirements down to eight half-year courses, in response to a letter from the Educational Resources Group (ERG) reminding the committee of its original guarantee not to increase the requirements...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Core Committee Will Find Exemptions for Students | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

Otto T. Solbrig, professor of Biology and chairman of the Core subcommittee on Science, said he also believed non-science concentrators should not be free to exempt themselves from the science Core area requirement, which requires two half-year Core courses, one in Science A, covering the physical sciences and one in Science B, dealing with life sciences...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Core Committee Will Find Exemptions for Students | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

However, if the public is going to risk a billion-and-a-half on Chrysler. Congress should toughen Carter's proposal, and make granting the aid conditional on a commitment from Chrysler to use the money to retool for production of small, fuel-efficient cars, and also, as Rep. Henry Reuss (D-Wis) has advocated, for buses and rail equipment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Free Lunch | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

...nation's three radioactive waste burial grounds at Beatty, Nev. "I'm just tired of having to assume the responsibility for having our people take the risks in a system which is not properly regulated," List said. Then last week, South Carolina Gov. Richard W. Riley cut in half the volume of wastes accepted by his state's Barnwell disposal facility, which handles 85 per cent of the nation's commercial radioactive sludge. It wasn't the first time that the three sites had been shut down, but when they all went at once, people began to worry...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Wasting Away | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

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