Word: vein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meaning," "coherence." This is fine and good, but unfortunately no one has reduced the meaning of education or the role education plays in a hierarchical society to a pat, formulaic phrase. In fact, it seems no one has realized that this very question, and other questions in the same vein, are the root of an intense ideological battle being waged throughout the world. It seems reasonable to raise the question: Are Harvard professors--safe and secure with plenty of status and money--so removed from social reality? What makes them so objective? Unless we are willing to concede that...
...cardiac bypass was first developed as a regular procedure in 1967, when only 37 operations were performed. Since then some 300,000 to 400,000 have been carried out in the U.S. alone, and the 1978 total is expected to top 75,000. The operation involves taking lengths of vein from a patient's leg and stitching them to the aorta and to coronary arteries so that blockages are bypassed. The surgery demands the most skillful surgical teamwork, commonly takes as long as five hours and can cost $12,000 or more...
...most modern and the most efficient methods." To Britain's Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, it is "a society based on cooperation instead of competition." France's Mitterrand calls it "an élan, a collective movement ?the communion of men in search of justice." In a more colloquial vein, a current hit song in Jamaica, pulsating with reggae beat, teaches: "Socialism is love for your brother/ Socialism is linking hearts and hands/ Love and togetherness?that's what it means...
...this task that the Carter administration should turn its attention. The creation and passage of legislation in this vein needs the kind of weight behind it that Carter brought to bear for reform of job-bias agencies. Success in that effort might justify the Carter administration's horn-tooting...
...images but model people-androids without the electronic guts. Each plastic scalp is the sum of myriad transplants; thousands of strands of fuzz are pricked into the cold, immobile forearm; the pigment on the skin replicates flesh down to the very last pore, zit, shaving nick and burst vein, while every T shirt and pair of overalls displays exactly the right degree of grunge, wear and spattering. Consequently, the presence of these figures becomes almost hallucinatory. "Speaking likenesses" that cannot speak but cannot, at a glance, be readily told apart from their spectators, they lean against the Whitney...