Search Details

Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...seniority than many of the minority members accepted. Weber won his case in a 2-to-1 decision of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The judges denied a petition from Kaiser for a rehearing after confidentially advising Justice Department attorneys in Washington that they wanted to wait for the Bakke decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Bakke Bottleneck | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

When the Blue Hens took the field in the top of the seventh, though, homeplate umpire Joe Driscoll raised his hands and sent both nines scurrying for the dugout. Despite the seven-plus hour wait, there was to be no more baseball in Holyoke Wednesday...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Ousted From NCAA Baseball Tourney | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

Four teams remain in the tourney. Harvard will have to wait until next spring for another chance...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Ousted From NCAA Baseball Tourney | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

...quite a while before any of the younger princes would be considered as a potential heir to the throne. Family custom has been that Kings are chosen from the sons of Abdul Aziz. Since Khalid has at least 28 living younger brothers, the next generation will have to wait its turn for power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The House of Saud: Solidarity Forever | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

Harvard's daily, the Crimson, publishes a news digest titled "The Real World." Traditionally, that was a place undergraduates had to wait many years to see firsthand. But now more and more students, finding that it is a long way from kindergarten to graduate school, are "stopping out," as educators put it. At Stanford, almost a quarter of all students take at least one leave of absence. The stop-out rate at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania has ranged between 43% and 56% in recent years. Says Dr. Robert Dunham, vice president for undergraduate studies at Penn State, where leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: When in Doubt, Stop Out | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

Previous | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | Next