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...other students' sense of history seemed keener and, at their request, the Freshman Council and Adams House Committee reconvened this week to reconsider the boycott. Memories refreshed, the Freshman Council decided to reverse its decision and Adams House will delay sending a representative to CRR while it conducts a House referendum this week. The committee also decided to set up a task force in the House which will work with other Houses to investigate the CRR's history and structure...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Two Steps Ahead, One Step Back | 12/13/1980 | See Source »

Eventually, Moulton will lower the chemical concentration to see how well gerbils really do smell, and whether they can replace the sharp-nosed hounds at airports. Dogs almost certainly have keener noses, but they require walking, petting and lots of love; gerbils obviously have simpler needs. Of course, the idea of gerbils snuggling up to airline passengers may seem slightly ludicrous. Shrugs Moulton: "That's the FAA'S problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Sniffing Gerbil | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...would be false to call the Bard contemporary. His psychological insight may be keener than Freud's, and his social perceptions, about women and blacks for example, travel freely across the borders of age. But he was first and last an Elizabethan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bard for a New Generation | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...high school I used to set all kinds of goals, but the competition is so much keener in college that I changed my motivation. I just try to get in as good condition as possible and then do the best I can in competition," he said...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Captain Nemo Leads Harriers From No-Man's Land | 11/1/1978 | See Source »

...this overnight sensation business. Of course, no one had heard of Boston before their first album came out two years ago. Not even heavy corporate types around the record company, who got interested when this virtually unadvertised debut by an unknown group sold its first million albums. Interest grew keener when Boston doubled those sales, then doubled them again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boston's Sonic Mystery Tour | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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