Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disadvantaged schools. Bok's explanation of the declining minority enrollment as being caused by heavy competition with other institutions over small numbers totally ignores Harvard's failure to implement AA policies. It even carries the underlying premise that these small numbers of minority students in themselves are not a sign of discrimination...
...BOMBER. The manned bomber does have certain advantages-you can raise its readiness, which is a visible sign, and it can be recalled [while a missile, once fired, cannot]. On the other hand, there are air defenses that make its attrition rate high, and it is vulnerable on the ground. Its big advantage is that it provides a different kind of penetration so that it complicates the other side's problems. The question is: How much can you afford to pay for that, as compared with the other ways you could spend the funds...
...suddenness and openness of the break astonished Western and Japanese oil-company experts and government officials, who at first refused to believe that OPEC had split into a two-tiered pricing system. Some experts hailed the news as a sign of OPEC'S breakup. Said Noboyuki Nakahara, a senior executive of one of Japan's largest oil refineries: "If true, [the split] could mean a virtual collapse of the OPEC price structure." Others more cautiously warned that OPEC could eventually get its act together again by agreeing on the Saudi price, the price of the majority eleven countries...
Small World. For all that, there was no sign of an outright U.S.Saudi deal. Rather, the price split reflected economic and political strains that have been present in OPEC all along but until now have been papered over in a façade of unity. Having more oil to sell than anyone else. Saudi Arabia wants to keep volume high, which it recognizes can be done only by holding the price down. As OPEC's volume producers, moreover, the Saudis have developed a more sophisticated understanding of customer markets than other OPEC members. In addition, the Saudis...
...sign of one of the states of sleep, known as REM. characterized by intensive dreaming...