Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For individual nations, finding a way out of the present mess is particularly difficult precisely because of the recession's global scope. In the past, many European nations and Japan could stimulate their flagging economies by boosting exports. But because all the major economies are in decline at the...
If increased numbers of non-residents are admitted, it will represent a marked departure from Harvard's past policy, though not from Radcliffe's. Many other colleges--University of Pennsylvania. Yale and MIT, for example--admit greater numbers of transfer students particularly non-resident transfers, than does Harvard, Mosley says...
The briefing lasted about half an hour, and consisted largely of warnings about the Holworthy squirrels ("They'll come right through the windows and chew up your term papers"), explanations of the course catalogue ("I've marked all the good courses with an X"), and a plug for The Crimson...
INDOCHINA. The swift and almost uncontested Communist offensive in South Viet Nam raised an unsettling question: Had 50,000 American lives and $150 billion in U.S. aid been spent in vain? The government of Nguyen Van Thieu was proving much weaker than had been thought, and the fast fallback of...
Kennedy is resigned to the fact that pressure on him to enter the race - or, conversely, to withdraw even more decisively - will continue. "It's going to go back and forth like that," he says. "I can't worry about it." He does not intend to make an...