Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course will focus on questions such as, "How much criticism of a student's paper is too much?" and "How do I honestly and fairly evaluate a pile of papers when I can hardly stay awake...
...Costa Ricans needed any reassurance about the health of their political system, they had only to look at another, much different election that occurred last week in neighboring Nicaragua. Instead of crowds dancing in the streets, there were sullen troops guarding polls from which Nicaraguans chose to stay away in droves. The election, which was for municipal offices, was the setting for a grim confrontation between President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 52, and an odd but increasingly potent anti-Somoza coupling of radical guerrillas of the Sandinista movement and conservative Nicaraguan businessmen. Together the groups intend to bring Somoza down...
...Pathet Lao's plans for Phong Saly appear to be patterned on what the Vietnamese Communists euphemistically call a "new economic zone," a remote area where primitive agriculture can absorb a large population of political exiles who are there to stay. Inmates in other parts of the Lao gulag may also be sinking some unwanted permanent roots. Many who were shipped off to re-education centers two years ago are still there, and some prisoners' wives have been warned to pack up and join their husbands if they ever want to see them again. The Pathet...
More broadly, computers enable the patient to receive a health profile at far lower cost than previously possible; analyze vast amounts of blood; and, by systematizing information about the patient, cut down his hospital stay and pare both institutional and patient costs...
...stay competitive, companies in the valley are scrambling to snatch away their competitors' best engineers and designers. Says President Jerry Sanders of Advanced Micro Devices: "All a guy has to do here if he wants to change jobs is drive down the same street in the morning and turn in a different driveway." As billion-dollar chip makers like Texas Instruments and Motorola, which are based elsewhere, throw more of their weight into the fray, the smaller companies of the valley may ultimately be forced either to merge or sell out to larger firms. That could endanger the vitality...