Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst possible moment: the start of the 1973-74 recession, when demand for new housing shriveled. Says Michael Spear, former general manager of Columbia, Md., a successful new community that is privately financed: "Launching a new towns program in the early 1970s was like asking the Wright brothers to test their airplane in a hurricane and then concluding, when it crashed, that the invention did not work...
...strong point-could prove more important than either age or health. Said the African Curialist, Bernardin Gantin, "All the Cardinals have seen and lived the charisma of John Paul. Those great crowds of people will be present at this conclave." Remarked a leading Italian Jesuit: "Better than a medical test, they should give each papabile [candidate] a TV test...
...effort to sell to us." Last week a group of 100 U.S. businessmen, headed by Texas Instruments Chairman Mark Shepherd and accompanied by Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps and Assistant Secretary Frank A. Weil, arrived for a 15-day tour of Japan to put those oft-stated intentions to a test...
Occasionally, Harvard officialdom makes these mothers feel inferior as well. An incident in Gayle's first semester demonstrates how the University often ignores the demands put on student mothers. In one of her classes, an evening hourly was scheduled. Some varsity athletes were permitted to take the test early, but Gail, though she told the head section person she had to be home with her children in the evening, was not. "They couldn't take into account my problem--I wasn't even as good as a jock. They didn't care about my children, as long as I took...
Shofner said yesterday they punched the women in an effort to expose the sexism of the traditional all-male membership and to test the reaction of the club members...