Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost 2½ hours, while Foreign Minister Huang sat impassively and other Chinese officials scribbled notes but asked no questions. Vance talked only about international affairs, emphasizing the areas in which Washington and Peking had common interests, but postponing the matter of Taiwan. That night, at a deliberately low-keyed banquet, Huang noted in a gloomy toast that there were "still problems" between the two countries...
...panel found that the score decline was initially caused by a more socially varied group taking the SATs. In the 1960s there were "significant increases" in the number of women (who score lower in math), students from low-income families, and minority groups who began to take the tests. By the end of the decade of educational expansion, almost half of all students-compared with a third in 1964-were going on to college. Suddenly the SATs, traditionally taken by an elite college-bound group, broadened to include students entering community colleges and in general those with lower grades. Thus...
...survey, national U.S. averages are $10 for a silver filling on one tooth surface, $13 for a simple extraction, $14 for cleaning, $92 for root-canal therapy and $251 for full upper dentures. For the financially strapped patient, Denholtz recommends Government clinics and dental schools -often inconvenient, sometimes low on quality, but easy on the wallet. At all costs, do not fall prey to what Denholtz calls cut-rate "assembly line" dental sweatshops, where one man said he had all his teeth pulled in 35 seconds while the dentist boasted, "This is just like shelling corn...
...keeps people waiting for hours, fails to ask for a complete medical-dental history during the first visit, works without assistants, does not take X rays, wants to extract without suggesting alternatives for saving a tooth, does not use disposable needles to administer local anesthetics, charges unusually high or low fees, never explains his fees or procedures. If a dentist commits several of these violations, Denholtz recommends that patients should consider going elsewhere...
...devotion. Men and women alike follow the Sikh traditions of not cutting their hair and bearing symbolic daggers, combs and bracelets. Ashram members rise at 3:30 a.m. to practice yoga and meditate, sometimes while staring at a picture of Bhajan. They often work twelve hours a day on low salaries and skimpy diets at 3HO small businesses, such as landscaping companies, shoe stores, and quality vegetarian restaurants. Full-fledged initiates follow Bhajan's every dictum on diet, medical nostrums, child rearing, even orders to marry total strangers. Guru Terath Singh Khalsa, who is his lawyer and spokesman, says...