Word: tells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lewis Thomas [May 14] wonders why Americans are so obsessed-"needlessly," he says-with their health. I will gladly tell...
...says, "The kids whose parents are together will just say, 'Nah, my parents aren't like that.' Those kids aren't the kind who will listen. They will just tease and look at you funny." A boy earnestly explains: "Sometimes you are too scared to tell your friends. You might be ashamed." "Ashamed?" a counselor asks. A girl called Flora (the names of students are fictitious) stares at the floor and says, "Sometimes they say they are just going on a trip. I was upset. They lied." The point of this support group, the real usefulness...
Slemrode adds that the bureau's president doesn't tell people what to think but Slemrode suggests that preconceptions can influence results. "My prediction (of the economy's next move) depends on all the assumptions I've had to make. Because that's true I try to test the model with many different assumptions," he explains. Slemrode says that basic to the whole project is the conservative assumption that all markets stay in equilibrium...
Many people in the city planning profession would tell him to hire some bright young graduates from the Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) of Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD). But many others would insist he avoid that institution altogether. "They teach you economic analysis, not city planning, over there on the Charles," one of these critics might...
...tries to distinguish the difference between the proto-Harvard man--one whose ancestors also attended the school-- and the neo-Harvard man. From there, he somehow gets around to talking about the fact that Harvard produced such diverse individuals as Danial Ellsberg and McGeorge Bundy (Lopez naturally doesn't tell you that Bundy never received a degree from Harvard...