Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With all the G.I.s and P.O.W.s home, Americans now seem all too willing to forget about Viet Nam. The question is-can they forgive? Taxpayers already are showing a marked reluctance to spend money on the postwar reconstruction of North Viet Nam. Even before the P.O.W.s' revelations of torture...
The infants in the studies developed skin lesions, diarrhea, and respiratory infections, and were subject to marked growth retardation.
The second, and in some ways more ominous, aspect of the week's news related to Watergate was convicted defendant James W. McCord's letter to Judge Sirica. In the letter McCord claimed that he and his fellow defendants were pressured into keeping quiet about the involvement of higher officials...
ONE day last week L. Patrick Gray III, the embattled acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was summoned to the White House to discuss the status of President Nixon's controversial move to make him the permanent successor to the late J. Edgar Hoover. After the meeting, Gray...
*The timing of the strike. Last week marked the middle of the term. Many courses had already scheduled hour exams for this period. Students who might otherwise have struck were justifiably unwilling to miss their exams. Moreover, they were reluctant to cut lectures immediately preceding exams. Time that might have...