Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election year, the conventional political wisdom often proves to be neither conventional nor wise. Herewith a random test...
Hosken was determined to make her treatment at the GSD a test case against "old boy" hiring practices at Harvard that she believes discriminate against minorities and women. She waited until Bok took office in 1971--"there was no sense in doing this with Pusey," she says--and brought her complaint to HEW. After a year's investigation, HEW found that Hosken had suffered discrimination. Her case was "strange," however, according to Bob Randolph of the HEW Boston Civil Rights Office. "We didn't feel she was discriminated against because of her sex; the problems in this case were more...
...results are the same: a 5-0 record at the break. None of the matches thus far have been close, but they never are. The team probably deserves an "A," but then there would be no room for improvement, and with Princeton next (a week from Saturday), the crucial test of the season has yet to be taken. So an "A-" for now, and the Tigers on February...
Said, who heads the Geological Survey of Egypt and holds a seat in the Egyptian Parliament, bases his theory on evidence he found while doing test borings for the Aswan High Dam in 1961. In some of his core samples, Said was puzzled to find a layer of alluvial (deposited by running water) sediment at a depth of 450 ft., well below the level of the modern Mediterranean Sea. Convinced that such deposits could not have been left by today's Nile, Said began looking into the possibility that they were traces of an earlier river...
...year's end Dewey had decided to go on a mission. Although he had requested an English-speaking country because he had no language skill, the Mormon missionary committee sent Dewey to heavily industrialized Alsace-Lorraine, where Thomas would go two years later. Both a test of spiritual commitment and a means of expanding the church, the mission forced Dewey to "work not to become bitter," especially when doors were slammed in his face and, he adds, "I had dogs sicced on me." In one target city of 40,000 in Belgium, Dewey says, "we held meetings in the market...