Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ball, who also was awarded a Doctor of Laws, was an early opponent of the war in Vietnam, first within the upper levels of government and later increasingly vocal outside the policy-making circles...
With NASA's abrupt withdrawal, development of the Triangle was also sidetracked. Thompson says that the Authority's initial reaction to the NASA departure was to pursue job-intensive development for the remainder of the Quadrangle, but that consultants advised the CRA to seek middle and upper income housing for the site...
...Kraus plan's tax on parental income and other student resources is virtually prohibitive for students from middle income families. Within three years, half of the graduate student body will be bright, poor scholarship students and the other half will come from upper-class, professional backgrounds. Furthermore, the idea of asking graduate students--many of whom have been independent for the last few years--to turn to their parents for support is ludicrous...
...panel (above), led by Senator Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) and (second from left) Howard Baker (D-Tenn.) (far left), has proceeded cautiously throughout the hearings. Ervin has displayed both puzzlement (upper left) and pleasure (left) at the testimony. Sometimes, the testimony has intrigued Ervin and bored Baker (bottom center...
...method: shrewd conclusion based on empirical observation. What the eyes could see, the wits could solve. At the zenith of the Darwinian revolution, Oliver Wendell Holmes assured his countrymen: "Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper-chamber, if he has common-sense on the ground floor...