Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their intelligence with questions, study guides and sometimes scripts read as homework. Thereafter, Archie Bunker's layoff from his job on the loading dock can be used to prompt a class discussion of unemployment. An arrest by Starsky and Hutch helps illustrate constitutional guarantees like that of a suspect's right to counsel. The approach is being applied by different companies in slightly different ways. The CBS Television Reading Program helps student TV watchers to sharpen their logic and their language skills by providing "enrichment guides" (script and discussion questions) for special shows. It is now used...
...tipster-a bank employee who claims to have been asked by a friend to help plan the burglary-it might have worked. Last week, acting again on the informant's tip, police went to an apartment in Coral Gables and arrested a suspect: William McFarlan, 23, a 170-lb., 5-ft. 6-in. freshman law student at the University of Miami, who was charged with grand theft and burglary. Police are now searching for a missing coin collection worth...
...full-page ads across the country, Sears, Roebuck & Co. trumpeted a 5% reduction in its catalogue prices as a "voluntary" move "to help fight inflation." But the sudden-and suspect-volunteerism came after weeks of rising pressure from the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS) and a phone call to the company's Chicago headquarters from none other than Jimmy Carter. It was the President's first such jawboning-by-wire, and the highest official he could reach was the senior vice president for public affairs; the others were out to lunch, and Chairman Edward Telling...
...authors caution that if this and other applications seem suspect, that is not a justifiable reason for dismissing catastrophe theory altogether. The theory's lasting acceptance may have to await the development of mathematical techniques permitting more extensive applications and better predictions. Just as Newton's mechanics did not receive immediate acclaim, they maintain, neither should catastrophe theory's dubious reputation at present be seen as a sign of its ultimate success or failure...
...coloureds admitted to Harvard-Radcliffe." I would be amazed, and indeed highly impressed, if any South African non-white nationals have been able to overcome the barrier of apartheid to the extent of being admitted to the College, or are likely to do so in the near future. I suspect there may be none. Can anyone disabuse me of this notion? This letter itself certainly does...