Word: adds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Taxi Service will happily switch off their meters and cruise all day for payment in dollars. No wonder: the black market pays up to 1,000 Mozambican meticais to the dollar, compared with the official exchange rate of 42. "To Africa's sickness, pestilence and disease, add corruption," says Senegal's President Abdou Diouf. "It is endemic to this continent...
...center of the building to provide fresh air; some is circulated past pipes carrying cooler water from the basement. During this encounter, the water from the basement is initially heated by 10°. Its temperature is raised further by large refrigerator-type compressors called heat pumps, which can add or remove large quantities of heat...
Scarifying monsters add a dash of sci-fi glitz. They include Kronovores (creatures capable of devouring time), deadly Cybermen (decaying bodies encased in silver garb), the Yeti (a 9-ft.-tall carpet), the Anti-Matter Beast from Zeta-Minor (a bug-eyed sheet of aluminum wrap) and the Daleks, mobile robots who look like milk churns and scoot around intoning...
...more detractors among the London critics. The most telling slur has come from Hall's alma mater, the R.S.C., whose own musical, the satirical pantomime Poppy, has begun a successful commercial run. At one point in the show, the actors encourage the audience to join in song and add a threat: "Anyone who doesn't sing along gets two tickets to Jean Seberg...
...food on the table, and thus are certainly more reluctant to make complaints and speak than others at Harvard. Furthermore, as Linda Cooper, the sexual harassment officer at Clark University puts it, "Secretaries sometimes expect harassment, and the [buildings and grounds] staff accept it as a matter of course." Add the usual reasons women have for hesitating to make formal and informal complaints, and one can see why employees as a group are the least likely to speak out. As a result, Cooper and others believe they hear little about the harassment that goes on at schools. Ann Taylor...