Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Academy and community representatives have discussed the AAAS proposal at a series of meetings that Harvard officials did not attend because the University "thought it would be appropriate for the academy itself to take its idea to the community," Moulton said...
Steiner said he had expected a close vote yesterday. "I thought that the union would not win a majority but I was far from certain," he added...
...soybean charges also point up one of the problems of the commodities exchanges: the same broker may both represent customers and trade for his own account. Though this duality is thought to dampen violent swings in price-brokers may have to buy or sell when no one else will-it opens opportunities for abuse. Says Skinner: "Whenever you have a situation where a broker can trade for himself as well as be arbiter for both sides, you are going to have problems...
...have been a wise choice. I never saw any performance by the legendary Helen Morgan, for whom the part was tailored, but she must have had some kind of talent to have inspired such widespread adulation. I am, however, familiar with Morgan's singing, which I have always thought much overrated: her voice had a rapid, almost bleating tremolo, which I found unattractive...
...usually are taken for granted, and most murder mysteries do not delve any further into the matter, save for a few offhand comments on the fallibility of the men in the white hats. Bo Widerberg's Man on the Roof, however, confronts this automatic assumption in a serious and thought-provoking manner, functioning not only as a top-notch suspense film but also as a valuable comment on our naive notions regarding just who is good and who is evil in both fictional and real-life situations...