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...mulch mixture keeps the seeds moist and warm and also reduces the risk of seed loss in heavy rains, Gray said. He added that the seeds germinate faster in the mulch. The green color is added to help workers distinguish areas already seeded...

Author: By Dayna L. Cunningham, | Title: Harvard Yard Gets Spring Face Lift | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

...humanizes us, offers us a vision of what's truly meaningful and purposeful in life). Of course, emotion produces negative results too--but what is the function of education if not to combine reason and insight and moral awareness in the proctorship of human affairs? Education teaches us to distinguish a reasoned argument of artifice and greed from one of true merit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Bok's Ethics | 3/16/1979 | See Source »

...only did Stiles' vault distinguish him as All-American, it also established new Ivy League, New England, and Harvard records--while topping his IC4A record-setting vault and personal best by three inches...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Geoff Stiles: Pole Vaulter With Style | 3/13/1979 | See Source »

...task force's behalf, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano admitted that "the incidence of leukemia produced by low levels of radiation may be higher than scientists previously thought." But the report added: "Because the clinical features of cancer do not reveal its cause, it is impossible to distinguish the few [people] with radiogenic cancer from the larger group whose cancer was caused by other factors." What is more, it usually is impossible to determine just how large a dose of radiation a victim received. Consequently, although Califano professed dissatisfaction with the recommended safe level of 170 millirems a year (Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Fallout of Nuclear Fear | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...addition to that, management must certainly come to the realization that they don't own all of the brains in the world in deciding how a plant should be operated. I distinguish between participation in decision-making by the workers in managing the enterprise and managing the job. We're a long way in this country from workers participating in managing the enterprise per se, but I think we're getting much closer to the other aspect of it--managing...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg and William A. Schwartz, S | Title: UAW: Loosening the Chains | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

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