Word: tick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regulation, the U.S now obtains results by heaving money into different areas. This has brought with it the rise of the economist and in particular the think tank, which enables the economist to exert his knowledgeable influence. In order to dig deeper into what makes a think tank tick, Szanton proposes that three questions economists often ask be explored: (1) What is being produced? (2) How is it being produced? (3) For whom is it being produced...
...biologist commented that science was giving us the ability to become gods before we had learned to be men. Studying the matter today, one might find that the distance between scientific knowledge and human needs is greater than it was yesterday, and that this distance is increasing with every tick of the atomic clock...
...happy ending tacked to a TV melodrama. It also reflects an abiding belief in the populist tradition. "The freedom of the public," says Brown, "is the time bomb in television." So far, the freedom has meant nothing, but in Television it is both funny and terrifying to watch it tick...
...mystique. Some of the most exuberant and entertaining movies of the past two decades-Stanley Donen's Singing in the Rain, Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard and Robert Aldrich's Legend of Lylah Clare -have been about Hollywood and the strange brand of people who make it tick. The latter two of these pictures are being offered by the Currier House Film Society this week, and, if you love American movies and are in some way obsessed by the factory that made them, you simply cannot miss this double bill...
...want to know what makes Harvard tick, try the Crimson News Board. From the first day, you'll be out and digging for the news. Or if you like Harvard sports, watch from a pressbox seat. If you want to take photographs, use our cameras, darkrooms, and film. If you want to review politics, films, plays, books, or the human condition, try the Editorial Board. And if you want to sell ads and handle a growing business, try our Business Board...