Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost as radically as military basic training recasts the civilian's. Sensibilities were not spared. "Sir, that may be logical, but it's not ethical," said a student to renowned Professor Joseph Beale. Replied Beale coldly: "Sir, I suggest that you transfer to the divinity school." That pre-World War II exchange is not much different from the give-and-take in today's Harvard Law lecture rooms. "Mr. Marcuss, what is constitutionally objectionable about this ordinance?" Professor Frank Michelman asked recently. "It's discriminatory, sir," said Marcuss. "Discriminatory," boomed Michelman. "Can you name one regulatory...
...inhabitants in pre-recorded history developed a civilization with advanced knowledge of astronomy and engineering, great road-building ability, a written language. Most famous achievements were their alms (temples) and moai (great stone monoliths), the largest of which weigh up to 80 tons, rise to the height of a six-story building. Now in the person of Capuchin Father Sebastian Englert, 78, comes word that quick action is needed if the great sculptures are to survive. "It is an urgent matter," Father Sebastian told a New York audience, "which cannot wait...
...Tranquillity was formed by extensive lava flow. Such flow, they say, could emerge only from a lunar interior that was-and could still be-hot and molten. The earthlike characteristics of the lunar surface also support the theory that the moon and earth were part of the same pre-planetary dust cloud when the solar system was young, but later split to go their separate ways...
...rate of 15% a year, double the previous rate. Doctors' fees are edging up, a dollar here and a couple of dollars there. Many physicians are doubling their incomes, while staying within the law. The overall costs of both Medicaid and Medicare are running astronomically higher than pre-enactment forecasts...
...prices ranging from 32? to 45? in one four-block area. Chicagoans fork over anywhere from 35? to 50? for the same sort of butts. "It's all on the basis of what the traffic will bear," explains Los Angeles Tobacco Distributor Norbert Orens. "Cigarette prices are not pre-marked with a manufacturer's price, so it's easy...