Word: homework
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regret to inform you that your front page article, "Stuff of Life..." fails to achieve a passing grade. Your reporter neither did his homework nor understood what I told him over the phone on Sunday. First as to homework, your reporter had access to Walter Sullivan's article in the N.Y. Times of Nov. 6, and he mentioned having seen it. Even a casual reading of this article would have avoided must of the errors. Secondly, a press release on formic acid dated Nov. 6 was on the AP and UP wires. Finally, an I.A.U. Circular was issued last week...
...Cambridge and Harvard Square. First, the East Cambridge neighborhood is tight-knit: it is not unusual for next-door neighbors to be blood relatives. Second, perhaps because of the close family units, the East Cambridge neighborhood is quiet, with few people in the street. "Kids stay inside doing their homework and the father sits at the head of the table like a boss in command," Vellucci said. "The only pot these kids fool around with is a pot of spaghetti...
...Social Contract (Atheneum; $10), Ardrey, with characteristic boldness, traces the evolutionary development of that effective and mysterious survival mechanism, the group. He has obviously done his homework; his bibliography runs to 322 entries. But his interpretation of this background soars well beyond most anthropological theory, to hypotheses and conjectures that are largely...
...recognized the potential role of computers in simplifying and speeding the work of Congress. Legislators find themselves increasingly inundated by tons of laboriously produced reports. It was proposed, therefore, that a computer data bank be established to provide prompt and comprehensive information for lawmakers who want to do their homework properly...
...working for YES (Youth Emergency Service), a telephone referral service for troubled kids, which she helped start in Minneapolis this year. Later she hopes to study in Europe. Says Davis: "You can't dismiss them as young, ethereal dreamers. Their premises, whether right or wrong, are based on homework. They make them...