Word: siftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Correspondents in Iran sift conflicting signals...
...Mexico City, occupants of $250,000 houses in posh suburbs like Bosques de las Lomas daily witness scenes that evoke images from Dante's Inferno. Beneath a perpetual mushroom cloud of pollution rising from a huge garbage dump called Santa Fe, 1,000 pepenadores (those who pick things up) sift through a pile of rubble 1.6 miles long and hundreds of feet high for bones, paper, glass and other recyclable items. By selling this refuse to a trash king, the pepenadores can earn more than the daily minimum wage of $6.25. As a consequence, this wretched work has become...
...debate drones on as Rosovsky slumps in his chair huddled around his pipe. CHUL members sift through a huge pile of reports, subcommittee recommendations, and position papers. As the time limit approaches, Rosovsky quickens the pace. The meeting ends; no one mentions the new Student Assembly. A lot has been decided. The house is in order until next month...
...scenic this year, because they will be digging up the water pipes underneath it. But don't despair, even here the shadow of the New England past can be seen, because the pipe-diggers have uncovered a load of Indian artifacts in their trenches. As the archaelogists sift through the dirt you might contemplate the ironies of the Indians' situation relative to Harvard. The tradition here is very much the white man's layered over everything that had the impunity to come before...
...Life Building and begin work on a fascinating and complex medical story. As sociate Editor Frederic Golden returned to his office and joined the other members of TIME'S medicine team: Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Reporter-Researchers Adrianne Jucius and F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt. Together they began to sift through the evidence and collect data for this week's cover story on the approaching birth of the world's first test-tube baby...