Word: signs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spring the number of minority applicants jumped almost 20 percent, and the percentage of minorities accepted was greater than for the student body as a whole. In addition, GSAS continues to offer fellowships to all minority students. And GSAS this summer appointed its first Black director of admissions, a sign to potential minority applicants that Harvard is serious about increasing minority presence in the University...
...about 70% of victims, the first sign is a rash that often looks like a bull's-eye -- white in the center and red on the outside. It erupts up to a month after the tick bite, and is sometimes accompanied by fever, stiffness and extreme lethargy. At this stage, the infection is easily cured with common antibiotics, like tetracycline. Left untreated, however, more serious symptoms may develop as the spirochete makes its way into the brain (18% of cases), the joints (57%) or the heart (10%). Correctly diagnosed, even these complications can usually be reversed with large doses...
...than the $98,000 he was quoted retail. He takes a call from a wine merchant about some cases of Chateau Petrus, but tells the man that " '76 isn't a good enough year." An elegantly suited young woman strolls in with a folder of things for him to sign: bills, checks, a customs release...
...time when real-life families are weathering problems of drugs and divorce, the Huxtable clan on The Cosby Show is the very model of a strong, close-knit, parent-dominated unit. The fact that the family is black, without making a particular point of it, is an encouraging sign of maturity in matters of race. For whites as well as blacks, The Cosby Show is a weekly source of comfort and wisdom. "I hear white working-class families quoting The Cosby Show as though it were the last church sermon they heard," says Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles...
Summits have been, especially in the Reagan years, nothing more than public relations ploys cooked up for a domestic audience. Presidents meet their Soviet counterparts to prove that superpower relations are not as bad as critics claim. Or they go to sign treaties. But the treaties are never negotiated in person: they are the product of several months or years of hard work awaiting only the signature of two leaders--leaders who more often than not aren't capable of understanding the detail of the agreements...