Word: host
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...great to come roaring back after the UMass defeat," an excited coach Scalise said after the game. The booters host Yale at 1:30 p.m. Friday in their season finale...
...statistical nonsense. Infant mortality rates in New York City declined markedly between 1940 and 1970, while addiction to heroin increased and while divorce rates rose dramatically. But no one would argue that infant deaths were reduced by heroin or divorce. Clearly, infant mortality rates have dropped because of a host of factors such as improved health care, immunizations, higher standards of living...
Even if a deal with the Communists can be worked out, the act of transferring formal recognition from Taipei to Peking would raise a host of legal and legislative problems. The U.S. is tied to Taiwan by 59 bilateral treaties and agreements, plus many more multilateral ones. How many of these pacts could or should survive "derecognition"? What new legislation would be required to keep them in force? How could the U.S. continue to supply arms to a government whose legitimacy it no longer formally recognizes? Government lawyers have been preparing briefs on these and other questions, and the State...
...believing that more cops and tougher judges will stop crime is wishful as well, says Charles Silberman in his important new book, Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice.* Silberman's searching study faces some uncomfortable truths?like the fact that blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime?and debunks a host of myths along...
Being out front with ideas is a Garst family tradition. David's father Roswell, who died last November at 79, is remembered internationally as the corn grower who played host to Nikita Khrushchev on his U.S. tour in 1959. But on the prairies Roswell is remembered as a developer, with Henry Wallace, of hybrid corn. David, a blunt-featured bear of a man who graduated from Stanford ('50), is promoting innovation on his own. Among the techniques that he and his family have pushed...