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...always agree on usage. The Indianapolis Star spells it "clew," the Indianapolis News "clue." Most papers capitalize Pope, but the Miami Herald does not. In most papers, rape is rape, but in the Memphis Commercial Appeal it is usually criminal attack. The Minneapolis Star and Tribune permit partial decommissioning of generals ("If it's Lt. Gen. John A. Jones in the first reference, plain Jones will suffice in later references"), but in the New York Times, once a general always a general. And no paper cares to folo the trail blazed by the Chicago Tribune into a virgin land...
Within this general framework, there have been numerous disagreements, some of which have finally been ironed out through the long process of diplomatic haggling. One of the major disagreements has been the question of partial agreement versus a comprehensive treaty. The Soviets originally held out for a single treaty that would make provisions for all future ramifications; the West preferred signing separate treaties for each separate stage of agreement as it is reached. In spring of 1960 agreement was reached on a controlled ban of explosions, underwater tests, air tests, and underground tests producing a seismographic signal in excess...
...percentages provided producers the following "educated guesses": SAT verbal--695, SAT math--660, English Achievement--725. Nevertheless, test scores weigh heavily enough that the Committee places them at the back of each applicant's folder--where the reader will not see them until she has already formed a partial picture of the candidate in question. Moreover, the Committee is currently trying to arrive at a formula evaluating SAT scores, achievement tests, and rank in secondary school class to project a freshman average for each applicant. When the formula is obtained, it is plain that predicted Rank List will join...
...explosion exists, whatever the wishes of the chief protagonists." He rejects as unfeasible a series of proposals, including disengagement, and then affirms a plan as technical as the others, indistinguishable to the layman from any number of similar programs. It involves an agreed level of armament in Central Europe, partial pull-back of Big Four forces, and employment of "the eastern borders of a unified Germany" as the central dividing line. Yet only six pages above Kissinger had remarked that "the Kremlin has made clear innumerable times that it would not tolerate the overthrow of a Communist regime." And immediately...
Relaxation of the rules requiring students to live in a University residence unless they are from the Boston area would be another partial solution for over-crowding...