Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading experts. He also interviewed several of Einstein's former associates and his longtime secretary, Helen Dukas. For Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Reporter-Researcher F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt, working on this week's story was also a brain-stretching experience. "General relativity blows your mind," reports Jaroff. "What we set out to do was to give mil lions of intelligent readers a glimmering of what relativity is, and what it was that led Einstein to it." glimmer is the latest in a long series of illuminating articles Jaroff and his staff have offered readers, and the American Association...
Abortionists are trying to set up pro-life as a religious issue [Jan. 29] so they can shoot it down as such. Many pro-lifers are religious but that does not make it a religious issue. Abortion is a scientific and moral issue. A fetus is a living individual with a separate identity from conception. When one person's "right" inflicts death on another, that right becomes secondary...
...weighted according to population? How long can the convention go on? Above all, must it stick to the issue for which it was called, or is it free to consider other matters as well? The convention can certainly be restricted, declares U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell. "Limits can be set," he says. "Congress has a duty to do so." Paul Freund of the Harvard Law School agrees: "Since the Constitution is silent on details, the details become a political question. Since Congress issues the call, it can define the jurisdiction of the convention...
...trading is always fast and furious on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, where high-rolling speculators invest in options to buy securities at a set price for a certain length of time...
Kevin Fong, an organizer of the conference and member of the Harvard Asian Law Students Association, said, "We tried to bring in domestic minorities and international third world representatives to participate in the conference. We never intended to set up an Arab-Israeli debate nor to take sides on the issue...