Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something back. The violence is always there, murmuring relentlessly in the facial expressions of Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro), in the sweltering New York City streets, but Scorsese restrains it, draws us ever closer to the explosion then retreats, telling us smilingly, "No, it's not time yet." And we wait anxiously for deliverance...
...member of the task force, George F. Carrier, Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics, maintains that this "slightly anomalous" task force must wait until the other six have prepared their recommendations before it can make its final comments or report. This approach has angered at least one member, E. Scott Gilbert '76, who disagrees that the task force should be what he calls a "technical, nuts and bolts panel." Gilbert believes the task force must face up to value judgments and, in particular, consider how to balance the value of good teaching against the traditional benchmarks of scholarship, research and publication...
...task force's wait-and-see attitude may be due for a change, however. In his recent visit to the committee, Rosovsky encouraged it to move ahead and not restrict its inquiries to narrow budgetary questions, according to several members...
...vote to send the issue immediately to sub-committee for study reflected the same sentiment about the busing issue as did your editorial. We are in agreement as to the desirability of expanding bus service (and plan to study the similar needs of Dunster and Mather Houses). Rather than wait for the administration to stop dragging its feet on the matter, we decided last Wednesday to initiate our own "systematic cost and feasibility study." Katherine Fulton '78 Winthrop House CHUL representative
PIPELINES. To move the projected volumes of coal, railroad lines must buy thousands of new hopper cars and locomotives and upgrade roadbeds and tracks. Rather than wait, several consortiums of mining companies have come up with another idea: building pipelines to carry coal mixed with water from mines to users. The longest line under serious consideration would stretch 1,036 miles from Gillette, Wyo., to White Bluff, Ark. But the pipelines invariably would have to cross rail lines -and the railroads, anxious to carry all the Western coal, refuse to give their competitors permission to cross their land. The argument...