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House stereotypes will not return under this system because most students will still be assigned in the non-ordered choice method. The problem with ordered choice was that certain houses had almost all their spaces ranked first by a homogeneous group of people. Enhanced choice will not allow such homogeneous groups to fully make up a house. Most likely, no more than 43.75 percent of a house will be composed of students who designated that house as their first choice...
...robot played a key role in a total-hip replacement, one of 500,000 such operations performed each year. The trick in these procedures is to cut a snug hole into which the artificial hip snaps. The standard method is to jam a tool into the thighbone with a hand-held mallet. Robodoc, using the high-speed drill at the end of its mechanical arm, can ream a cavity that is 20 times as precise...
...long charged that many Japanese firms doing business in the U.S. artificially inflate the value of Stateside deliveries to reduce the profits -- hence the taxes -- of their American subsidiaries. Now one of Japan's largest consumer-electronics manufacturers, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., has agreed to a new pricing method designed to head off questions through advance consultations. Matsushita, whose consumer-appliance brands include Panasonic and National, became the first major Japanese firm to adopt the new system. If approved by President-elect Bill Clinton, who has claimed during the campaign that foreign firms were underpaying U.S. taxes, it could well...
...Clinton leaves us with no doubt about his intentions, we will be willing to compromise on the method. We understand that ardent and uncompromising radicalism may be an appropriate voice for anti-establishment dissenters, but it is not appropriate for the constituents of a sympathetic president...
...certainly doable in terms of a method of assignment," said Thomas A. Dingman '67, assistant dean of the college for the house system. "The concerns with the proposal are what led to the changes in the first place: the notion that the houses were getting less and less reflective of the population of the school...