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...uphold stringent safety requirements, fresh air must continually recirculate through the labs, Harry W. Orf, director of the Biochemical Laboratories and lecturer in Biochemistry and Chemistry, says. In addition, the air pressure in each lab room must be kept lower than the pressure in the hallways to prevent fumes from escaping...
Carter refused to accept the precise program but promised to uphold its "spirit and aims." Rosalynn Carter told TIME...
...alternately humane ("Billy is a colorful personality. I love him and he loves me"), defiant ("I don't have authority to order Billy to do something. It is not illegal for him to make a trip to Libya") and presidential ("I'm sworn by oath to uphold. . . the laws of our nation. If any member of my family should violate those laws, then I'm charged with the responsibility . . . to see that the law is carried...
...Vigurie looked fondly at the power of the Sierra Club or the anti-war groups to mobilize support, and decided to go them one better. His computer bank now contains more than 20 million names, most of them eager to give cash to anyone or anything that will help uphold decency, religion and high profits. The anti-feminists, formerly too demure to march and lobby, now scream shrilly about co-ed bathrooms; the pro-life contingent bombs clinics and pesters legislators. Liberals seem to be slowly emerging from the alfalfa-sprout doldrums of the decade past--a Vigurie-style operation...
...outfits (the official U.S. Olympic uniform: denim pants and skirts, plaid shirts, rawhide boots and white western hats), the athletes received gold-plated congressional medals on the west terrace of the Capitol. There, President Carter told them: "It is no exaggeration to say that you have done more to uphold the Olympic ideal than any other group of athletes in our history...