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...Perlick) found that heavy smokers, given only low-nicotine cigarettes to smoke, tried to compensate; to inhale their normal quota of nicotine, they smoked more cigarettes and puffed more frequently. Even so, some were not able to make up the difference and showed withdrawal symptoms: increased eating, irritability and poorer concentration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Chemistry of Smoking | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...word here is CLASS. Harvard basketball has been a classless society for most of this decade. The facilities are disgusting and are the axis around which aspects of spotty recruiting, poor attendance and poorer records revolve...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Making Do And Doing Nothing | 2/19/1977 | See Source »

Growing Value. Replacement-cost accounting, says one analyst who favors the system, "does not make a company's results poorer. It just shows how poor they were." Under the traditional accounting method called straight-line depreciation, a company that bought a $100,000 machine with a life expectancy of ten years could reduce the value of that machine on its balance sheet by $10,000 every year. Proponents of replacement-cost accounting argue that the machine should be carried on the books at the price of a new machine, which, after a decade of extremely high inflation, could jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACCOUNTING: Balance-Sheet Battle | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...Cream flavor has soured. The memory of the genius of Layla, able to redeem hours of poorer Clapton, has disspated: "Innocent Times" on side two whines, "no reason to laught...no reason...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Double Trouble at Shangri-La | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...have tried reason, to no avail. The administration is continuing to destroy the remaining shreds of unity, to merge us into the faceless mask that produces the new standard Harvard-Radcliffe person. But if Harvard has its way, certainly these people, and probably the College, will be the poorer for it. Christopher M. Holt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ignorant Professors | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

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