Word: showings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone knows that the objections of the masters and not of the Class of '92 derailed last year's movement for randomization. There is little reason to believe that the current first-year petition will be more than an "empty show of freedom...
Adams has always felt uncomfortable about his picture of Loan executing the Viet Cong officer. What the picture does not show is that a few moments earlier the Viet Cong had slaughtered the family of Loan's best friend in a house just up the road. All this occurred during the Tet offensive, a state of general mayhem all over South Viet Nam. The Communists in similar circumstances would not have had qualms about summary execution...
...SHOW BUSINESS: Ellen Barkin, Sea of Love's sultry star...
...econometrics, which uses mathematical models to study the behavior of an economy. "Every time you open a newspaper and see an analysis of economic trends," said Assar Lindbeck, chairman of the economics- prize committee, "it is based on Haavelmo's econometric theories." Haavelmo's key contribution was to show that the relationship between such factors as income and spending was far more complex than had been thought, since those factors affect one another and the rest of the economy. For example, he demonstrated that an economist could not gauge the impact of a change in tax rates on consumer spending...
...published. "They're clearing up the backlog," says Harvard economist Zvi Griliches, who hailed this year's choice. "They haven't got to the point of recognizing something interesting that happened in the past five years." But when such awards are finally made, the work of the winners may show the influence of the feisty and reclusive Haavelmo...