Word: regents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fears that the jury's "flukish decision" will encourage other Robin Hood robberies. As for Masover, he was awarded a prestigious state regent's scholarship and plans this week to enter the University of California at Berkeley, where he will study physics and try to forget his close encounter with...
...reliable regent...
...that the company is on vacation, Havergal has found the time to direct at the Loeb, and to do a recent Regent's Lectureship on Drama at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he lectured on theater management ("I love the Barnum and Bailey part of it all," he says), and conducted a directing workshop. "I was particularly keen to come here and work with students on a production," Havergal says, "because I haven't done any work with them since I left college [Oxford...
...curators at London's Regent's Park zoo, the deaths were troubling. Between March 1974 and September 1976, 55 owls in the zoo's celebrated collection died. For a while, zookeepers thought that the birds, which usually live to ages of 15 years or more, were simply succumbing to old age. But when younger birds began dying too, sometimes after repeated convulsions, the zoo's chief veterinarian, David Jones, decided it was time for some serious sleuthing...
OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, people all over the country have been trying to sort out the issues and absorb the analyses in the controversial case of Regent of the University of California v. Allan Bakke. Many have debated with themselves about what personal stance to take, but have ended up more confused. Most people realize by now, for example, that the challenged U.C. Davis Medical School special admissions program goes beyond what is normally understood as affirmative action, but they question the charges that it amounts to a rigid quota system...