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While the giants--Ec 1, Hist 169, Nat Sci 5, and Fine Arts 13--siphon off great bands of students, Erik Eriksons' Soc Sci 139 (Bust to Dust) initiates the ignorant in the mysteries of the life cycle, a modest subject on which Erikson's expertise has gained world acclaim, Life, writ large and lustily, is also a prime topic in one of the college's best (and toughest) English courses. "Chaucer" (Eng 115). For those with a yen for comparative studies, Professor Giovanni Sartori of the University of Florence holds forth in Gov 112b, "Political Systems of Continental Europe...
...crack criminal defender as well as prosecutor, Director Decker, who was founder of the Army's Judge Advocate General School and of the nation's first independent military judiciary, will siphon much of his Ford Foundation money into model defender agencies in Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia and Washington-"grey area" cities with slum-bred legal problems. Matching funds will go to other cities and counties willing eventually to pay the full bill for embryo defender agencies. Since 90% of court-appointed lawyers are unskilled in criminal law, Project Defender will also support more law-school criminal courses...
...where he may be able to slip a bug into an electrical outlet or heating duct, which are often back-to-back. Otherwise, he may drill a small hole through the wall and poke a thin plastic tube into it, just short of the far surface, so as to siphon sound waves into a microphone next door...
...this proved mighty worrisome to North Dakota Republicans who feared Scott might siphon off enough G.O.P. votes to give the race to Democrat Hove. Appealing to "alarmed Republicans," the party organization mounted a massive get-out-the-vote drive, brought in moderate Senator Milton Young, who labeled Scott a "far-right liberal...
...research. In Italy, until recently, private industry's R. & D. budgets were taxed as hidden profits; in Germany R. & D. spending is hampered by low depreciation allowances. Germans also complain that the havoc of World War II slowed them grievously, and that higher-paying U.S. corporations continue to siphon off German scientists. General Electric recruiters recently interviewed 170 scientists in Germany, signed up 40 of them...