Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cook also admitted he had told a congressional committee that he decided to change the paragraph in the Vesco complaint the day before Stans called him to suggest a switch. Further, Cook acknowledged that he had brought up the matter of Vesco's mysterious $250,000 three times to Stans. Why should Cook have done that? The defense left the implication that Cook had been trying to use the Vesco affair to try to pressure Stans into supporting...
Fourth of all, in the last paragraph of the article, it was implied that the phrase "the mistreating and misleading of Mrs. Mao by the Chinese Department" originated in the H-RCSA Newsletter's editorial when in fact it was merely a reference to the same phrase used by Mr. Jeffrey Kang '76 whose letter to the H-RCSA Newsletter editor was the basis for the editorial...
...story has a catchy beginning: "Ferocious swarms of man-killing bees are buzzing their way toward North America." The second curt paragraph fairly shouts in terror: "They have already smashed their way through Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru." Lest the tension become unbearable, a third paragraph offers relief: "But don't panic. It may take ten to 14 years before the bees hit the U.S." This rather anticlimactic tale could well be a metaphor for the paper that carries it in its first issue, appearing on newsstands this week. The tabloid weekly National Star is arriving with...
...must be changed. Thus, for example, the reason for poor instruction is not that the professors are selfish capitalists, but rather, for rather, that the professional and pecuniary rewards are much greater for research and consulting than for teaching. If the graduate student malaise referred to in the second paragraph is to be relieved, a new system of incentives must be developed which will encourage good teaching and close faculty-student contacts. I do not have space to detail my suggestions, but I think that movement along these lines will be more fruitful than simply hiring four (or more) politically...
...kink in the system, Brown adds, is that everyone wants to type on the CRTs: "A copy boy one night was writing a message on one about going across town to see a friend. He didn't know it, but he was adding a paragraph to a story and it got in the paper...