Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question the good sense that is exercised when any well dressed "normal looking" individual is let into entryway. I also question the good sense exercised when freshman women sleep with their doors unlocked. (I was a freshman once also; half the women in my entryway left their doors unlocked at night...
Maintaining people in entryways also has limited appeal. The Leverett tower guard has never asked me for my ID before letting me in. I therefore question whether or not there would be any return on the expenditure for such a system...
...also question the "video camera" concept. Unfortunately, the "start up costs" would not be the only costs of such a system. Video cameras break at a finite frequency, and about 150 cameras would have to be functioning for the undergraduate community alone. Furthermore, the cameras are worthless unless they are taping. Harvard would be required to maintain a small army of technicians not only to keep the cameras working, but also to to change and store the tapes...
Although one member of the audience rose to question White's "flattering" of politicians, Apple said White's work had resulted in important journalistic innovations. Apple called White, a former Time correspondent, "celebrator of the political system...
From the start, scientists had a firm answer to the question uppermost in every Californian's mind: the earthquake that hit San Francisco last week was not the long-feared Big One. While it packed a punch, measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale,* the 1906 earthquake was 25 times as strong, at 8.3. Warns Dallas Peck, director of the U.S. Geological Survey: "The question is not whether a bigger earthquake is coming. The question is when...