Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gass's precision with words as physical objects that gives these somber stories a weight out of proportion to their size. In more than one sense, they have a rare specific gravity...
...legacy also involves the onerous duty of governing 1,300,000 more Arabs who inhabit conquered territories that are together three times the size of Israel itself. The burden of the occupation has compounded older problems. Many younger politicians are losing patience with the pioneer generation of leaders typified by Eshkol. Men like Dayan's aide, Knesset Member Simon Peres, describe them as "a self-perpetuating oligarchy with a powerful sense of self-pity." Despite its recovery, the economy has serious weaknesses, among them its dependence upon the generosity of Jews abroad and its large trade deficit. Defense expenditures...
...taking white blood cells, growing them in the laboratory and dousing them with a weak salt solution. This explodes the cells, separating the chromosomes. These are stained, spread on a slide and photographed. From an enlargement, pairs of chromosomes are laboriously cut out, paper-doll fashion, lined up by size and shape in seven groups, and numbered from one to 22 (the "Denver classification"). X and Y are usually placed...
...with the formation of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland now boasts one of the nation's largest private universities-a science-minded school that ranks ahead of Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago in both faculty size (1,200) and graduate enrollment (4,547), and ahead of both Dartmouth and Duke in terms of endowment ($138 million...
...Case and Western Reserve, which have occupied adjacent campuses for 83 years, the merger brings benefits far beyond the prestige that comes with increased size. It makes for better overall balance by pooling the respective strengths of each school-notably medicine for Western Reserve and engineering and physics for Case. It creates more muscular academic departments, including 45-member faculties in both chemistry and physics. And the federation, as their get-together is officially called, also eliminates the competition between Case and Western Reserve in raising funds...