Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through the use of sign language and push-button computers, apes have shown they can use symbols to generalize, pose questions and express moods. These experiments contest the claims made by thinkers from Descartes to Noam Chomsky that man's uniqueness can be found in his unusual ability to think and talk in abstract terms. What is it, then, Leakey asks the reader, that makes man different? What special quality does the human brain possess...
...grew hotter, Brown doffed his jacket to give a brief speech in the 105° F. heat in Brawley, a town in the arid Imperial Valley. "Taxes are going down," he declared. "I didn't have much to do with Proposition 13. That was the other fella. But I did sign a $1 billion tax cut, the largest in the history of California. I have given you four years of prosperity, and now I'm asking you to let me consolidate, to give me four more years. I don't say everything is perfect. I'm a human being. I make...
...much maligned three-martini lunch. Tuned finely to the antitax and more conservative mood of the electorate, Congress was mainly interested in axing federal levies and encouraging investment. Although the congressional bill falls short of the Administration's original goals, it seemed certain that Carter would sign...
Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman, Carter said that he "would not sign a bad bill, election year...
Harvard students and professors lined up to sign a waiting list yesterday at Out of Town News for copies of the second printing...