Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...area of current beach erosion, but another one he built, a mile farther north, is in an area where there have been indications of erosion. Hanmore does not believe it: "Those condominiums have been up for two years, and I haven't seen any sign of the beach disappearing...
REGULATION. Experts from the NRC should be on duty in the control room of every reactor round the clock, armed with full authority to take over at the first sign of trouble, order a shut down if that seems necessary, direct all emergency procedures for closing the plant-and damn what it may cost. At present, this responsibility is borne largely by utility-company employees, who, with the best will in the world, cannot avoid thinking about the costs to the company. In addition, computers at all U.S. nuclear plants should be wired in to a central NRC monitoring station...
...Medical School abolished a special admissions committee that processed minority applications. Students fear a further decline in black enrollment at the graduate level, down from 256 in 1973 to 183 this year. But the Supreme Court's decision supporting white Medical School Applicant Allan Bakke has discouraged protest. "Sign carrying would be sort of after the fact now," says one Stanford student. "I guess we'll just have to see how the new plan works...
...Cherbourg. Stars Irving and Ontkean can be vibrant actors, but Markowitz straitjackets them into cutie-pie poses. If Irving comes off the better of the two, it is because of her character's affliction. Somehow silly dialogue does not seem quite so embarrassing when it is relayed in sign language...
...annoying truisms about big ideas is they usually demand big money. The Core Curriculum, the general education program which the Faculty will begin to phase in next year, is no exception. So it was with an equally big sign of relief that the Faculty this week accepted the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's $1.25 million grant for the Core, the first grant exclusively designated to aid the Core's development...