Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The price tag is modest: $91 million per year for the recommended new programs, plus continuing the growth of federal funding for present social science projects at a rate of 12% to 18% each year. Bills embodying some ideas in the report have been introduced in Congress during the past...
Alvin Gouldner, 49, Washington University, St. Louis: "One way of thinking about the new sociology is that we don't want to be the market researchers for the welfare state. We don't want to be on the pacification teams in Viet Nam. We simply don't...
Herbert J. Gans, 42, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.: "Most students are not committed radicals. They are more concerned with having courses on the relevant questions, and finding their own answers. I think what they're asking for is relevance, and that we can find answers to some of the issues...
Edward Falk, a 43-year-old New Jersey carpenter, could not work last year because of shortness of breath. By early October he could not even summon up enough wind to get out of bed. His complaint was emphysema, a condition in which the myriad tiny sacs on the inner...
Last week physicians at Manhattan's New York Hospital concluded that no known treatment could help Falk and that he might die any day. His one slender hope lay in an operation performed only once before, and then unsuccessfully: transplantation of a heart and two lungs. Then a 50...