Word: majority
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...Harvard does not weigh in as a heavy," says State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge). "It never tries to threaten passage of major legislation...
Robert T. Morris '88 is accused of creating the virus program that crippled computers in many major universities and government research facilities across the country, causing the majority of them to shut down temporarily. Morris pleaded not guilty when he was indicted this summer...
...fighting a war on drugs, drugs appear to be winning. In at least seven major cities, new homicide records were set in 1989, in some cases breaking standards established only twelve months ago, and many of the killings were drug-related. New York City, as usual, had the most murders -- 1,773 by late November, 19 more than in 1988 -- though less than the record 1,896 reached in 1988. Washington, D.C., led the list on a per capita basis, with at least 433 killings for its population of 629,000, vs. 369 murders last year. Philadelphia; New Orleans; Kansas...
That hope springs from at least two major scientific efforts to develop elms more resistant to Dutch elm disease. Within the next two years, the National Arboretum in Washington will distribute to nurseries several new varieties of elms that are less vulnerable to the Dutch elm disease fungus. Researchers believe that the new elms will be able to thrive even in the polluted conditions found in many cities...
Amid the uncertainty, a number of new reform proposals are being floated. One would replace the austral with the dollar, eliminating one major cause of inflation by depriving Menem's government of the ability to print money. For just that reason, not to mention outraged nationalistic sensibilities, the idea is sure to go nowhere...