Word: occurate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though this scenario sounds like the plot for a made-for-TV movie, Eugene Shoemaker, a respected U.S. Geological Survey scientist, is concerned that just such an event--and an unwarranted reaction--could occur. Shoemaker expressed his fears at a recent Baltimore meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU): "The effect of a meteor blast appears the same as a high- altitude nuclear explosion," he said. "If this happens in the wrong place, people will think they've been nuked...
...naturally to the interior regions of bones. For the procedure to succeed, the tissue of the donor and the patient must match exactly, or the donated cells must be treated to make them compatible. In Moscow, all the donors were siblings or parents of the victims. Still, rejection can occur. And even when a transplant takes, the recipient may die of infection or other injuries caused by the radiation...
...doubtful that Harvard holds a large enough percentage of a company's stock involved to cause a decrease in price. Second, even if Harvard did hold a large enough take to drive down the stock priced, the stocks would not be sold in one transaction. Divestment would occur over time--the market would be not glutted, and the price would not be affected...
...SALT II would be a blow to the sputtering arms-control talks that resumed in Geneva last week. The timing could also be awkward: the Soviets are now hinting that they may agree to a Washington summit between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in December, just when the breach would occur...
...know many people who hold the same position as I do, and have heard many conversations and arguments on this issue without any name calling such as you suggested. I don't think that my experience is so unusual. I suggest that if such an incident ever did occur (it was only hypothesiszed in the editorial) it was isolated, and not representative of the pro-divestiture movement as a whole. Generalizing from this one incident would make as much sense as me making generalizations about conservatives on campus just because I was once accused of being un-American...