Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slimmer Waistlines. The trend has Government encouragement-indeed prodding. Nancy Harvey Steorts, special assistant for consumer affairs to Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, advanced the idea a year ago in a speech to the National Association of Meat Purveyors and shortly after persuaded the Camelback Inn to test the plan. Since then she has traveled round the country evangelizing smaller portions. She argues that they will help consumers slim their waistlines and cut food bills, bolster restaurant profits by selling additional dinners, and that "the tiniest bit of wasted food cannot be justified when an estimated 1½ billion people...
...slowly, he made advances in 1971, Stash passed his first preliminary figure test, and skating started to become a larger and larger part of his life. He was drawn on by the challenge, he has concluded. "Skating is something that no one else in my condition has ever really tried. I want to keep at it, trying to find out if there's anything I can't do if I work at it long enough," Stash said...
...conscience to the test...
...court decisions barring residency requirements for voters and a new registration law have put this piece of political wisdom to a test. Under the new law, students may register to vote here simply by filling out a form. But despite bullhorns, leaflets, and sign-up tables all over the place, the results--like the prospects of a student take-over--have been disappointing, and certainly nothing for Cambridge power brokers to lose sleep over...
...Bach Society Orchestra met that test in its first concert of the season giving Yo-Yo Ma '76 the backing he deserved during a performance of the first cello concerto by Shostakovich. Under the baton of Neal Stulberg '76, this year's conductor, the potentially fragmented composition jelled into a continuous musical statement. The orchestra nimbly bridged the dangerous gaps between the cello passages and those sections played by the group; instead of pouncing on its entrances and destroying the soft, quiet effect produced by Ma in the second movement, the orchestra picked up where he left off and matched...