Word: weak
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...contacts on Capitol Hill are very weak, then those in HEW seem to be stronger. But women's colleges must join together and quickly find a niche in the new Education Department. If they don't, they may be left out in the cold. "Women's colleges are all very different," says Horner, "but they are all connected by a fundamental philosophy and belief in the talents of women." All that belief and goodwill, however, means very little in the face of hundreds of well-oiled lobbying machines. If the case for women's colleges is going to be heard...
...defensive back, filed a $1.1 million suit accusing Kush of assault, public defamation of character and a conspiracy to drive him off the team. In 1977 Rutledge was one of the school's few freshmen to win a varsity letter, but a 1978 car accident left him weak and underweight. He says that he asked to be red-shirted (sit out the games but attend practices) for that season. Kush scheduled him to play. Rutledge was averaging a poor 34.6 yds. per kick, and in last year's match with Washington he made a particularly bad punt...
Indeed, at a time when the U.S. is beset with economic woes, an energy crisis, weak leadership and growing self-doubt, Americans can take unalloyed pride in the honors that have been bestowed on its men and women of science. Since 1946, 100 U.S. citizens have won Nobels in the sciences, more than half of the to tal number awarded and far more than America's nearest rivals: Britain, with 34; Germany, 13; the Soviet Union, 8; and France, 5. The record is nearly as impressive in what Thomas Carlyle called the "dismal science." Since the establishment...
PHYSICS: Sheldon Glashow, 46 (U.S.), Steven Weinberg, 46 (U.S.), and Abdus Salam, 53 (Pakistani), for their contributions to a theory that explains the relationship of two of nature's basic forces: 1) electromagnetism, which accounts for such phenomena as sunlight and radio waves, and 2) the weak force that governs the release of a beta particle from the nucleus of an atom in a process called radioactive decay...
...stickwomen have four games remaining, in which they face no weak opponents. But co-captain Elaine Kellogg feels that the Crimson still figure in the face...