Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ACSR is made up of student, faculty, administration and alumni members and, since its inception, has recommended that Harvard vote in favor of a number of shareholder resolutions calling upon major corporations to improve their "social behavior" in many different areas--strip mining, pollution, equal employment, foreign involvement, military production...
...change. One of his latest schemes, unveiled this summer, involved a palm-scanning machine designed to reduce the number of non-paying persons eating in Harvard dining halls. The machine was relatively simple. The finger length, curvature and skin translucency of each student would be recorded on the magnetic strip on the back of his or her bursar's card. Then each dining hall would be equipped with a slotted scanner that would read the magnetic strip when the card was inserted and indicate whether the palm matched the card. Hall and Frank J. Weissbecker, director of food services...
...confused, overlapped and uncoordinated." New York's new state commissioner for social services, Stephen Berger, with tongue only slightly in cheek, has a proposal that is aimed at the vast welfare bureaucracy. Since firing the government employees involved would only add to unemployment, he wants to "strip every third person of his or her typewriter and telephone, encourage them to play bridge or do anything that comes into their heads-except send out more instructions, forms and guidelines...
...begin thinking about reining in his defense expenditures, which now devour $2 billion, or 25% of the gross national product (v. $3.6 billion, or 30% for Israel). Sadat is hard-pressed even to feed his 37 million people, 96% of whom are crowded in a narrow, seven-mile strip running 500 miles along the Nile. Egypt's trade deficit has been revised upward to $4 billion this year, and short-term debts to commercial banks have risen to about the same amount...
...eleven or so, a fingertip that is not damaged below the first joint will often regenerate spontaneously if left alone. Thus instead of suturing up smashed or amputated fingertips, Dr. Illingworth and her colleagues merely clean the damaged digit, hold it in position with a sterile splint strip, cover it with a nonstick dressing and a mitten bandage, and then let nature take its course. Illingworth notes, for example, that a three-year-old girl whose fingertip was treated surgically following amputation in an accident was left with a permanently deformed finger. But a five-year-old who received...