Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund drive for the school. Alumni Council dissenters--who threaten to communicate with possible donors and ask them to withhold their contributions--could seriously damage both the financial standing and integrity of the school. A faculty which promises to incessantly protest Hiatt's presence does little to help the matter. Something clearly needs to be done, aside from Bok's chiding of the faculty...
Kleinfelder explains that the major difference between a college team like Harvard's--only five years old--and a U.S. team is really a matter of degree. "You have the skill level with the national team. Skill level is not going to interfere with anything you want to do. At the college level, though, you spend a lot of time on skill work," she says...
ALDO LEOPOLD wrote his impassioned plea for a land ethic more than 30 years ago, three years after the holocausts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But little has changed in America, (or anywhere else, for that matter.) Man is still intoxicated with his own technology, and through his creations he feels he must tinker with the forces of nature to accommodate his limitless whims and needs...
Although all students so far have mild cases, "the matter is under intenseive investigation," Postel said. Investigators are using "common epidemiological procedure" by examining food service workers to try to trace the sources of the poisoning, he said...
Nicholson, having set out to direct a feature-length movie, obviously decided he might as well use a plot while he's at it, no matter how flimsy it might be. It turns out, then, that the city laws of Longhorn include an ordinance that provides a last-minute out for the condemned. If one of the Longhorn ladies can muster up enough courage to take a fellow like Henry Moone as her lawfully wedded husband, she can literally give the jailbird a new lease on life. "Ordinance wives" they call 'em in Longhorn, and much to the good fortune...