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And things have not changed much since then, the history graduate student says. President Bok is a popular president but his progressive rehetoric rarely translates into concrete action, Trumpbour says, adding that the framework of the government of the University prevents most changes.
At the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, mathematicians plot complex equations on a computer-graphics terminal, which translates the numbers and symbols into form and color. Watching a curving, perforated object take form on the screen, the mathematicians gradually become convinced that they have produced a new shape with a...
TODAY'S SPEED limit of 55 translates into an unenforced speed limit of about 65 miles per hour. Of course, there will always be the 75 year-old women who--barely able to see over the steering wheel--will drive 50 mph in the left lane and, oblivious to the...
The straitened circumstances have only intensified the ratings war, in which a single point translates into $19 million in advertising revenues a year. For nearly two decades CBS Evening News held the top slot, but it tumbled into second place during the last three months of 1986, when Brokaw narrowly...
FOOTNOTE: *NBC had a quarterly rating of 11.8, CBS 11.6 and ABC 10.6. That translates into 10.3 million sets tuned to Brokaw, 10.1 million to Rather and 9.2 million to Jennings.