Word: terme
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PERHAPS the most disturbing of last week's election results, aside from Dan Quayle ascending to the vice presidency, was the defeat of three-term Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.). The defeat of Weicker, an iconoclast who came to national prominence in 1973 as a member of the Senate Watergate Committee, represents a loss to the GOP and to the nation...
When Alvin E. Thompson won the Democratic nomination for state representave from Cambridge, his opponent, six-term incumbent Saundra Graham acknowledged that she had taken her victory for granted. Last Tuesday, Thompson faced tough opposition from Graham--even though this time her name didn't appear on the ballot...
Kennedy, speaking before a crowd of 400 at the Copley Plaza Hotel, pledged to continue his progressive legislative agenda in his fifth term. Supporters, although pleased by Kennedy's 66 to 34 point reelection, said the disappointing presidential returns put a damper on the Senate victory...
...congressional committees and several medical schools are currently investigating Tseng's allegedly fraudulent research. Harvard and Mass. Eye and Ear conducted investigations into the matter earlier this year. The University is still examining the long-term aspects of the case, the third instance of major medical research fraud at Harvard since...
...blue-chip list: the Montgomery Ward department-store chain, bought by its executives from Mobil; the former ITT subsidiary that makes Scott lawn products; the onetime Unisys unit that produces Nu-kote ribbons for typewriters and computer printers. "Management buyouts create powerful incentives for entrepreneurship, risk taking and long-term planning," says Martin Dubilier, chairman of a New York City investment firm that bankrolls many executives seeking control of their companies...