Word: masnick
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...Department of Population Sciences has been without a permanent director for more than a year. During that time Joseph J. Harrington, McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering, and George S. Masnick, associate professor of Population Sciences at the School of Public Health, have acted as interim directors...
...1970s, the baby-boom children were "singles," the glamour class of childless sybarites that had responsibilities to no one other than themselves. A decade later, they are dropping anchor. Harvard Demographer George Masnick foresees them aspiring "to put down roots, to plant gardens, to rake the leaves." Already, says he, "young men and women are moving to the country in droves, trying to get away from the singles bars, the single apartment complexes...
Microwave ovens, made for home use since the mid-1950s but only truly popular in their newer, "safer" versions since the early 1970s, are seen by some experts as the coming gadget for the 1980s and beyond. Says Harvard's Masnick: "You can come home from work, take the chicken out of the freezer and have it on the dinner table in an hour." Also useful, says he, for houses where both spouses work, are security systems "to protect homes that stand empty...