Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radicals and blacks did on U.S. campuses in the 1960s. Indeed, the American experience in the '60s is one of the main influences on Iranian campuses. Says a professor: "Several of my radicalized colleagues are veterans of 1968 in the West and have been waiting ever since to repeat the experience at home...
Simon, an appealing plate-shaped puzzle that flashes sequences of colored lights and accompanying musical notes, challenges players to repeat the sequences and gives losers the raspberry, began to change that. Adults, suffering from what one industry thinker called "play deprivation," have not only bought Simon and the competing computer toys like this year's play-alike Computer Perfection, but also are more or less cheerfully paying $40 to $50 for them. That shattered forever the $15 to $20 level the industry had considered its average. Now more than 100 different hand-held computer toys crowd store shelves...
...fall back to their private communication, they speak jerky, passable English. But they are woefully behind in social and emotional development. "I keep reading that they are so normal now," says Catherine Pope, Ginny's instructor at Ross Elementary School. "It simply isn't true." Gracie can repeat a sentence "imbedded" with a clause and add numbers up to a total of five, sometimes higher. Both girls have motor-coordination problems. One of Ginny's teachers discovered that she lacks what Jean Piaget defines as "object permanence," the developmental stage in which a normal child, at about...
...World's John Thompson, however, disagreed with Richards, saying, "anyone who thinks that nobody will catch the two leading houses is up his #!?." Thompson predicted Quincy would repeat last year's strong winter showing...
...horse races instead of contests of men and issues, and devotes most of its time to handicapping them. That is the valid complaint of political scientists about the 1976 campaign coverage. Why not talk more about the issues? The fact is that the candidates quickly develop, and tirelessly repeat, a pat little passage of reverberatory obfuscation on any controversial issue...