Word: karle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Karl E. Case, head tutor in Economics, said yesterday that while Galbraith sincerely wished to provide incentive for high-quality graduate school teaching, he also wished to "have some fun with his colleagues...
...some groups are better off, so are some departments; in fact, at least one has found the poor economic situation a definite boon. "Economics is a super field right now," says Karl Case, a last year economics graduate student. "Enrollments are up; everyone is taking economics courses because the economy is so bad. It's gone from 360 to 560 concentrators at Harvard alone." In economics, too, the now favorable academic job market is complemented by the availability of good opportunities for economics Ph.D.'s in government and industry--a situation that traditionally has not existed in the humanities...
Birds do it, bees do it, even celebrities do it. Now the precise details of how 28 prominent Americans lost their virginity have been compiled in a new book, The First Time (Simon & Schuster; $7.95), written by husband and wife Freelancers Karl and Anne Taylor Fleming. "There was candlelight and wine and nice music and considerable fumbling," recalled Fear of Flying Author Erica Jong of her first bedding with a Columbia University sophomore. "I don't remember it being painful or bad," she disclosed, "nor do I remember the earth moving." Columnist Art Buchwald succumbed to the charms...
Another contributor reminisced about the good old days when "you could read a guy like a page, top to bottom." Nowadays, wrote Karl Maves, two strangers in a bar may spend more than 20 minutes staring at each other just "to figure out what the hell the other one is supposed to mean." The fellow in cowboy boots and beads, with the blue sequins spelling LOVE on his olive-drab army pants, "must be a sort of butch hippie," a cruiser might speculate. "Or at least non-nellie. Without being anti-nellie of course...
...Geological Survey at nearby Menlo Park. "The best estimate of the long-range rate of occurrence of great earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault is about one every 100 years, so a significant probability exists of another within the next 30 years." Another specialist, Berkeley's Karl V. Steinbrugge, perhaps the country's leading expert on designing quake-resistant buildings, is even more blunt. Says he: "Thousands of lives snuffed out in 30 seconds is going to blow the roof off this country. And it's going to happen...