Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fight to establish guidelines for recombinant DNA research has raised hackles in every quarter--in Washington over a series of legislative and administrative maneuvering, in Cambridge over the way universities conduct their DNA research, and in the academic community over charges of conflict of interest and exploitation of DNA research...
...been quarter of a century since Watson and his colleague, Francis Crick, first published the results of their research into the molecular structure of DNA, but his name remains permanently associated with the mysteries of genetic replication. His research earned him a Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 1962, while he was still in his 30s, and the book we wrote with Crick--The Double Helix, the story of their joint research in molecular biology--became a best-seller. His notoriety has followed him from his post at Harvard as Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences--a chair from...
...with a broken neck in the league opener, charged into the league lead by upsetting Dartmouth, ther fell back with a loss to a mediocre crew from Princeton. Then came the back-breaker with Harvard still clinging to its hopes of tying for the league title in the fourth quarter of The Game at New Haven, when Yale punter Mike Sullivan buried the ball in his gut on fourth-and-20 and sprinted 65 yards for a game-icing touchdown...
...linked," says Sizer, "and left arms linked." At Harvard, his focus was mostly on education in public high schools. Since coming to Andover as its twelfth headmaster in 1972, he has worked hard at fulfilling its charter: to be "ever equally open to youth of requisite qualifications from every quarter." He set up Short Term Institutes, which bring some 95 high school students a year to Andover for intensive sixto ten-week seminars in a single subject, and an accelerated math and science program for minority students at the school's 700-student summer session. With middle-class families...
...director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS). May's figures will not look much better, he adds, and prices will not start to level out until June at the earliest. Partly because of last winter's blizzards, food prices climbed 16.4% in the first quarter. Beef has jumped at an annual rate of 41 % since January, and wholesale prices are spurting, meaning that retail prices will continue to rise...