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...University's public policy school the "Harvard School of Government." Offerings in the school's course catalogue now bear the initials "HSG", and last week a professor who recently left the school to join the Reagan Administration was quoted as saying that an unidentified school official urged him to refer to the school without the Kennedy name...
...construction of the Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building caps 14 checkered years of efforts by the department to secure a home of its own. Twice the University scotched plans for sizable structures because of inability to procure funds--leading Mark S. Ptashne, chairman of the department, to refer to its having been "cruelly denied" in the past...
...changes so quickly it's impossible to predict," he observes. "I used to use notebooks and refer to them, but they're useless. For this job you've got to be here...
...market target is massive. Seventy-six million people, nearly one-third of the U.S. population, were born between 1946 and 1964. Moreover, now that they are mostly in their 20s to mid-30s, many baby-boom adults are taking home big paychecks for the first time. Population experts refer to this as "the pig in a python" phenomenon because demographic charts today resemble a snake that has just swallowed something huge. The people born during the baby boom form a large group that comes between two periods of baby bust: the Depression and the 1970s. The boom is slowly working...
...gathered in the field outside the village of Eyam. Some worshipers seemed close to tears, for this was a service to commemorate a rare act of heroism at the time of the Great Plague that struck England more than 300 years ago. The rhyme's four bitter lines refer to the rosy mark on the chest of plague victims, the nosegays that people carried thinking to prevent infection, convulsive sneezing-and then death...