Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flames. One woman owner of a colonial manse in Holland, 25 miles west of Grand Rapids, plans to build a new home if her offer is accepted, explaining, "I don't like two-story houses. I like a ranch style better." Another helpful lady phoned to recommend her neighbor's house-without telling him-because it was "an eye sore." Director John Carpenter (Halloween) will make the final selection next month, but with the calls coming in from as far away as Houston, it looks as though he has discovered one answer to the real estate crunch: more...
Robert Coles, professor of Psychiatry and never one known to tackle questions in a small or simple way, decided, after rummaging around in his library and some deliberation, simply to recommend his five favorite books of all-time...
...buying an AAA-rated corporate bond issued by a blue-chip company like American Telephone & Telegraph or International Business Machines, an investor can count on making 14% on his money for ten years or more. If inflation stays at about 5%, that represents a good return. Some moneymen recommend buying U.S. Government bonds. Although they pay only 13%, the securities are practically risk free and, unlike corporate bonds, hold no danger that the Government will decide to redeem them early if interest rates decline quickly...
...rhetoric today tends to call war "futile" and "pointless." But, historically, almost all societies have seen the point of war; at any rate, they have always waged it. Today, the civilization's sheer annihilating capabilities make war seem a grotesque old habit of the race, with nothing to recommend it. But at one time, war was young and stirring and beautiful-or at least it had that side as well as its awful stricken one, its waste of life, its writhing and refugees. War made the adrenaline run, it gave life drama and meaning. The young went...
This problem has, we were glad to learn last week, attracted the attention of Richard Marius, the director of the expository writing program. Expressing concern that graders often ignore, students' poor writing and do little to develop writing skills. Marius announced his plans to recommend that all section leaders in Core courses with paper assignments be required to undergo a graining program in criticizing written work. His proposal will come this summer, in a report on the expository writing program to Henry Rosovsky, dean of Faculty, he said...