Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty will also vote on a proposal to establish a separate set of distribution requirements incorporating more math and science for students seeking a Bachelor of Science degree. Another amendment would replace part of the History requirement with an area of study made up of courses on great works of Western thought...
...Temple University, has worked out a way to plumb the anatomy of a joke by applying to it a marvelous flight of mathematical wizardry known as the catastrophe theory. It is based on a dazzle of equations so dense not even a child trained in the new math could grasp...
...case, G.M. is putting its money where Murphy's math is. It will spend more than $4 billion this year, increasing to $5 billion in 1980, to expand and modernize. Murphy aims to increase G.M.'s already large share of auto markets abroad-notably in Latin America, Africa and Asia. But G.M. will invest 85% of its capital budget in the U.S., a slightly higher proportion than in past years. By next year's end it will add 30,000 jobs to its domestic employment rolls, which is particularly pleasing to the chairman, who was unemployed...
...courses would be interdisciplinary, with an eye toward a "basic literacy in major forms of intellectual discourse" for all students. Students would be required to take an expository writing course and to demonstrate competence in a foreign language, as they are now: they would also have to take a math review course if they failed an exam at the beginning of the freshman year...
Those found guilty of overdeducting in previous years can expect audits, as can those whose returns were prepared by tax advisers suspected of bending the law. Even simple math mistakes or failure to sign the form can trigger an audit, since agents scanning these "problem" returns may spot irregularities...