Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter is headed by Dartmouth College President John Kemeny, an eminent mathematician and nuclear expert, and has as members a balance of leaders from the sciences, politics, labor and academe. Nuclear power proponents had hoped that an unbiased investigation would find the Three Mile Island accident such a rare and isolated sequence of equipment failures and human errors as to have no implications for the safety of the other 72 U.S. nuclear power plants or the 88 new plants for which construction permits have been granted. But the commission's report places the blame so widely on federal...
Private management companies for universities like HMC are rare; most colleges use outside firms. Jerald L. Stevens, Yale treasurer, says Yale splits its endowment up among five external managers. "We have contracts where we hold them to a management fee and to targeted results." Stevens says. "We don't anticipate moving to a Harvard model," he adds...
After the upheavals caused by Volcker's monetary policy moves, the international commodity and money markets last week were enjoying rare refreshing quiet; the dollar held its own in Europe and rose dramatically against the yen in Japan. At the same time, gold slipped moderately to end the week...
...better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
Only men were studied, because alcoholism is rare among Danish women...