Word: sion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sion of Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin '52, three students were at the forefront of the nascent computer science discipline: the university of lllinois, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard...
...wasn't a question of supporting it. The Congress has made the Fed absolutely autonomous. All you can do is advance opinions. You can talk to them and say, "Why are we down here in a time of reces sion, holding the money supply down so far?" I can't refer to it as saying it brought on the recession, because we had this recession coming on since 1979. You have only to look at the statistics of 1980 to know that was a recession. In fact, I at one time called it a depression. Everyone wanted...
...More significant, according to Gerald Skoog, 45, professor of education at Tex as Tech University, textbooks now say less about evolution. Between 1974 and 1977, the section on Darwin's life in Biology, a text published by Silver Burdett, was cut from 1,373 words to 45. Discus sion of the origins of life went from 2,023 words to 322. Text devoted to Darwin's view of evolution shrank from 2,750 words to 296. Sections on fossil formation and geologic eras were deleted entirely...
...notion of collecting his jottings and memories when "two drunkards cornered me in a hotel room near Heathrow Airport" and pressed on him a copy of Captain William Bligh's Log of H. M.S. Bounty, put out by a firm in Surrey called Genesis. This, and a televi sion program on the making of fine books, gave George the idea of "having these trivial bits of paper dignified in this...
There was much grousing about overkill last week, but as CBS'S Hewitt pointed out, "I don't think I've been to a political convention when we all didn't say we were never going to another one." The Democratic ses sion in New York City next month has special significance: sit will mark the end of Walter E Cronkite's 28-year stint as the 5 CBS convention anchorman. "I think we'll know in a week or ten days how that one's going to shape up," said Cronkite eagerly...