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When taken in a historical perspective, irregular appointments such as these lead to distortions in the Committee's membership and perhaps even misrepresentations of the Harvard community's will...

Author: By Claude D. Convisser, | Title: Africa Investments ACSR: Shape up or Ship Out | 2/28/1985 | See Source »

...substance of the documentary and to show that its producers did not doubt its accuracy. The network has presented three kinds of witnesses: CBS employees, military and intelligence officers who worked with Westmoreland, and former soldiers who could attest independently to the damage inflicted by the civilian "irregular" forces. Last week witnesses from all three categories were on the stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Key Dispute Over Memories | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...former Viet Nam combat officer, Captain H. Daniel Embree, demonstrate how easily a grenade could be turned into a land mine by a civilian "irregular." Similar booby traps, said Embree, "routinely" caused two casualties a day when his unit was on the move. This testimony, contended CBS Attorney David Boies, proved that McChristian and others were right to insist on including the so-called self-defense-force irregulars in the official enemy-troop estimate, or "order of battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Key Dispute Over Memories | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...regulars ride in a regular car and get there on time to get a seat," admonishes a marketing man from the midst of a seated cluster of pinochle players. He offers the irregular rider further lore of the Long Island: "They have a total breakdown only about once a year, the kind of disaster you sense before you even get down the stairs at Penn Station. The crowd will be waiting shoulder to shoulder, and you will hear over the loudspeaker, 'Mmchshrum drillblitterich,' which translated means, 'Due to switch trouble, all Long Island trains will be delayed.' The only thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Long Island: Standing Room | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

Frikson recently startled the scientific community by showing that a specific type of abnormal gene--labelled an oncagene (from the Greek word ongus meaning "excessive growth")--corrupts the healthy cell by creating irregular proteins. These proteins then somehow transform the normal cell to a cancer cell...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: A Cure for Cancer? | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

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