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Despite the surging interest in the field, vet schools are uneven in quality. They are "poor cousins," as Washington State's Bustad bluntly concedes, with aging, hand-me-down facilities, antique equipment and low budgets. Few state legislatures, which provide most of the vet schools' funds, seem willing or able to increase their aid. Yet the cost of educating a veterinarian-now $48,000 or more for the basic four-year program -has doubled in the past decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schooling the Animals' Best Friends | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

Each canvas is divided vertically into two unequal parts, and the paint builds up and bubbles along the uneven line where the two parts converge. The subtle blends and shifts in color are interesting, but the works are neither exciting nor disturbing...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: High Voltage, Do Not Touch | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

...show is expectedly uneven (who can keep an audience rolling in the aisles for two hours?), but for every attempted joke and gesture that falls flat, the players come back with one that tickles. A series of poorly received commercials condoning racism were retrieved with a switch-around antagonism: a black dude named Jim Brown comes out and becons the T.V. audience to give these poor untalented white folks a job. Pointing to a group of uncoordinated, spastic white people in the corner of the stage, Jim Brown moans: "They can't do nothin', there. They can't boogie, they...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Your Move | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

...contest was pretty much divided into two uneven sectors. The first saw Bill Horton and Bill Hozack, playing on different lines after Cleary shook things up following last Wednesday's blowout at Cornell, sandwich goals around one by Yale's Anders Carlsson before eight minutes had elapsed in the opening stanza...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: For Harvard, One Yale of a Weekend | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...shoddy and key memos poorly prepared. Dozens of top jobs remained unfilled; the Agriculture Department has no deputy secretary, no general counsel and none of its six allotted assistant secretaries. But last week amid a burst of activity, Carter was coming to grips with matters of substance-and with uneven results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Now, for the Substance | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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