Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PROFESSOR JEAN MAYER'S proposal to institute meatless days at Harvard deserves serious consideration. Eating meat is the most inefficient method of obtaining calories, since it takes about eight pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat. The world's grain reserves are at a dangerously low level, and the average American--who now consumes over twice as much beef as in 1950--is helping to deplete them even further...
...state study, reported in Fresno Bee, 9/26/69). Few have sanitary toilets or safe drinking water at work (Congressional Record, 7/20/70). Their life expectancy is only 49 years, 23 less than the national average (U.S. Public Health Service). And except for those workers covered by UFW contracts, they have no method to change these conditions except for the strike and the boycott. Steven Carlip
...forefront of the fight against sex discrimination. As a result, one group of comments on the Title IX proposals is comprised of protests against detailed regulations, on grounds that such close supervision is unnecessary, and indeed sometimes offensive. The regulations require, for example, that institutions determine annually, by a method approved by HEW, what sports men and women students are interested in; Harvard complains that this is "an unnecessary interference in the internal operations of universities." The regulations also require that institutions include in all announcements, catalogs, bulletins and application forms a statement to the effect that...
When the educators of the '60s turned their backs on traditional scholastic programs and sought new methods, they made one horrifying mistake: they allowed students to dictate the needs. Sesame Street may be America's last vestige of fundamental learning. The ivory towers have been razed and replaced by Towers of Babel, where the Lucas Tanner Method of Unstructured Free Expression holds sway...
...Kissinger's role. "His goals are what is in the global interests of the United States. His objective is not to bring a permanent peace, but to avoid any possible escalation which may lead to nuclear war. His technique is to hold all the keys in his hands, a method which creates ambiguities and increases rather than relaxes tension...