Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unified purchasing system for 180,000 kinds of hardware should save $750,000 a year. Altogether, eventual savings from combined operations should be at least $80 million a year. Plans have been made to eliminate about 1,000 miles of duplicate tracks, and computers were called into service to help decide upon the best routes. With a choice of two main lines from Chicago to the Northeast, for example, the computers found that the Central's water-level route would be much more economical than the Pennsy tracks that ascend nearly 3,000 feet over the mountains of western...
...that U.S. campuses and law-enforcement officials are not of like minds regarding pot. Most students, as well as many professors, do not believe that smoking marijuana is or should be a criminal offense. Even if they privately share their students' views, college officials acknowledge their obligation to help enforce existing laws-although Long Island police were notably angered by Stony Brook's refusal to let the agents formally enroll as students...
...campus buildings, set up an advisory committee to deal with the problem. In the wake of the arrests, President John Toll announced that he had hired a full-time consultant on drugs, Lutheran Minister Dean A. Hepper, who in turn said that he would employ a former addict to help him work with students. The arrested stu dents, most of whom have pleaded not guilty, face the double jeopardy of both campus and county discipline. They will be tried before student-run courts, and those charged with selling drugs face suspension from class. The maximum criminal penalty is far more...
...president of New York's Carnegie Corporation, in a frank and chilling analysis of the nation's academic future. Speaking in Minneapolis, Pifer warned that it was high time for educators in the public and private sectors to stop their selfish factional disputes and get together to help shape new national policies on which federal funding must be based...
Pair-Bond. Emergence from the forest, says Morris, also converted man into "the sexiest primate alive." To ensure that the female would be faithful to the male while he was away hunting, and that the male would remain with the female to help in the extended rearing of the more slowly developing offspring, the "pair-bond," or love, came to Homo sapiens. At the same time, sexual relations became more rewarding to both male and female; the once brief mating season turned into a year-round affair...