Word: lipset
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DIED. HAROLD ("Hal") LIPSET, 78, private eye who famously put a bug in a martini olive; in the town that avidly tracked his gumshoe doings, San Francisco. Founder of the World Association of Detectives, Lipset demonstrated his electrical know-how for a Senate subcommittee in the 1960s with that oft parodied olive. Duly impressed, Washington briefly hired him as a Watergate investigator...
Breton adds that most of the readings for the course were written by Canadian sociologists, although one important text, Continental Divide by the American scholar Seymour M. Lipset, is an exception...
...RECIPE FOR PRESIDENTIAL RE-ELECTION used to be simple: keep employment high and prices low. Indeed, as of the early 1980s, the noted political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset was touting this formula as a potent predictor of electoral outcomes. Just add up the unemployment and inflation rates, he said. If this "misery index" was below 10, thumbs up for the incumbent. If above 10, then it was time to pen the memoirs...
Outside sources likewise could not place an exact overall value of a dorm. Dan M. Lipset '78, co-owner of Charles Associates Real Estate in Cambridge, said there are too many factors to consider, including house facilities and historic value. But he did take a stab at the cost of rebuilding the houses in today's market...
Considering the fact that the structures would be built on "prime real estate," Lipset said the new buildings would cost about $350-400 per square foot...