Word: regards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toward meeting his campaign promise of a $500 million reduction in property taxes. Mayors and other local officials protested so loudly that King retreated a bit, agreeing that if two-thirds of a community's voters approved higher spending, its cap would be lifted. Still, most Massachusetts politicians regard the effort as hamhanded, taking no account of growth or inflation. Says a state senator: "Things are more professional on the Quincy city council...
...switched to Pinyin, which some scholars regard as more accurate than Wade-Giles as a way of transcribing Chinese sounds. Taiwan has no plans to switch, since it sees the adoption of Pinyin as an acceptance of Communist claims. Others have more personal reasons. "If they want to call Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing 'Deng Xiaoping,' that's their business," grumped Boston Globe Columnist Anthony Spinazzola. "I don't have to order him in a restaurant." Which is something...
...candy. But studies of identical twins and adopted children by Biochemist Seymour Kety strongly suggest a genetic base for schizophrenia. According to Kety, the flaw, contained in the cells' DNA, the master genetic molecules, may possibly be transmitted by viruses. In any case, the new pharmacological researchers no longer regard schizophrenia as a single ailment but, like cancer, as a collection of different malfunctions. In schizophrenia, the common denominator is the brain, and many scientists are convinced that a neurotransmitter, or chemical brain-signal carrier, called dopamine is the prime culprit...
...dictionary does not approve of that favorite adverb of U.S. TV announcers, "momentarily," when used to mean "in a moment"; the only accepted definition is "for a moment." As a second meaning, "hopefully" used for "perhaps" or "possibly" is included, but with a warning that many people regard it as unacceptable. A reader who glumly discovers that "uninterested" is given as a second meaning for "disinterested" perks up when Hawkins complains that such a definition "obscures a useful distinction between disinterested (unbiased) and uninterested (not interested)." There will always be an England. Meanwhile a team of editors is getting ready...
...situation is about to change. The Ethics Advisory Board of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has just given IVF a moral go-ahead and urged HEW to lift the ban. While doing so, it nevertheless recommended research limitations that may influence future policy with regard to such matters as selective human breeding...