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Word: thought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social life. Gossip rains down like radioactive dust. Status symbols are precise and demanding, though in Los Alamos as in places like Cambridge, Mass., class is projected through such things as battered cars and withered clothes. Nuclear families here "are headed by a father who never had a stray thought, uncertainty or doubt," explains Father Ronald L. Bruckner, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church. "These are self-made men who, if they had a doubt, also had a standard deviation formula to solve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Alamos: A City Upon a Hill | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

William A. Groll '80, Adams House Committee chairman, said yesterday some assembly members called him earlier this week, offering to send someone to the committee meeting if he thought the vote on the boycott would be close...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: House Lobbying | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...past most scientists thought of DNA as a dead molecule" because they thought they completely understood its structure and chemical composition, Quigley said. He added that DNA investigators will have to re-evaluate past findings to see if they hold up in light of the new discovery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Group Finds New Form of DNA | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Russell Long cannot see beyond regressive taxation as a means to solve America's economic problems. The Louisiana Senator makes no attempt to hide his disdain for equitable taxes. Asked what he thought of the American income tax system, Long replied: "I think it is progressive to the point of being counter-productive." He prefers emulation Louis XIV by extracting onerous "taillies" from lower and middle income people. The VAT's hidden character may seem appealing to politicians, but its regressive nature will certainly prove costly to most Americans...

Author: By David H. Feinberg, | Title: Not VAT Again | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...something behind this. You keep waiting for him to reveal his identity and perhaps foil Lysistrata's master plan. When it becomes apparent that nothing of the sort is going to happen, you begin to wonder if enough women auditioned. But no, the director tells you afterwards, they thought it would be a good joke...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Pity Aristophanes | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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