Word: testing
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...took office, and indications were that the gap between the U.S. and Soviet negotiators was narrowing. For more than a year, there has been broad agreement in three basic categories: limitation of total strategic missile systems to 2,250 for each side, a three-year ban on developing or testing new missile systems, and further negotiations for a SALT III treaty that would make additional cuts in strategic nuclear arsenals. At the last Vance-Gromyko meeting in Geneva, in July, both sides pressed for some exemptions in the restrictions on new weapons and it appears they tentatively agreed that each...
...Test results have shown that one-third of the freshmen at state colleges in New Jersey are almost illiterate. So the state senate passed a bill requiring all public high school students to demonstrate at least a ninth-grade level of proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic before qualifying for a state-approved diploma. Then Senator Francis X. Herbert, who doubles as a high school English teacher, discovered that the senators could also use some drill in the fundamentals. The bill misspelled explicit as explict, minimum as minmum and remediation as remediaton. Conceded Sponsor Matthew Feldman: "Sure...
Washington to test Laetrile...
...briefing for National Cancer Institute staffers in Washington last week, Director Arthur Upton reviewed the NCI's progress and goals, and then quietly dropped a bombshell: the institute plans a $250,000 test on humans of the controversial cancer drug Laetrile...
While the decision spread joy through the ranks of the highly vocal Laetrile supporters, who for 15 years have been urging the NCI to test the drug, Upton's decision was apparently due more to political pressure than to scientific evidence. Laetrile promoters claim that some 70,000 cancer victims are using the apricot-pit-based substance in the U.S., despite a federal ban on interstate shipments, and have succeeded in recent years in getting 17 states to legalize its use. They scored another success recently when the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that terminally ill cancer patients could...