Word: extention
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...straightforward act of great courage, in disregard of consequences. But it may also be a last-ditch effort at self-preservation since, in view of the worldwide attention drawn by Solzhenitsyn's outcry, Russia's rulers might hesitate to move against him. To what extent such tactics might work is doubtful, as is suggested by the case of the brilliant young author Andrei Amal-ric. He was allowed to protest publicly for so long that some intellectuals actually suspected that he was a KGB agent. Last May he was imprisoned...
...more than three times the number graduated just ten years ago. Yet M.I.T. Physics Professor Lee Grodzins estimates that the entire country has only 3,000 good academic research or teaching posts in physics. Meantime, graduate schools are turning out 300 new Ph.D.s in physics each year. To some extent, overproduction is inevitable. The postwar "baby boom" that helped send college enrollments soaring in the middle '60s is now working its way through the graduate schools. Much of the glut can also be blamed on the academic pecking order. As bachelor's and master's degrees became...
...state, the spelling a trifle erratic. Everywhere, the calls to specific action: organize transport, line up pickets, circulate petitions. It has often been noted that in times of grief or stress, doing concrete things, even small things, brings a sense of relief. So it is here. To a great extent, the purpose of such strikes is action quite divorced from ultimate accomplishment, a desperate desire to shake off a sense of impotence, the need to do something, anything...
...imminently, to be sure. Yet the Israelis cite some frightening figures detailing the extent of Moscow's involvement, which has already cost the Kremlin close to $3 billion and is growing more expensive by the day. They claim that Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, the so-called "frontline" Arab countries, now possess 3,750 tanks, mostly Soviet T-54s and T-55s; some 4,000 big guns, ranging up to 122-mm. cannon and 160-mm. mortars; and 1,230 planes, mostly MIG fighters but also Sukhoi and Tupolev bombers. Israeli estimates of Soviet equipment in the Middle East have...
...hiring practices. Yet the punishments meted out to the black students leaves a wide area of mistrust and bad feeling between blacks and the administration. This area of mistrust could result in new takeovers next year, for blacks feel they cannot trust a University which acceeds to a large extent to their demands and then punishes them for militant, yet non-violent tactics which won these demands...