Word: adds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bonanza has caught many travel organizations with their telexes down. Carefree David Travels, an Atlanta-based agency that puts together charter packages for travel agents, has had to add five staffers and five telephone lines since June 1, and could use five more employees if it had time to train them. Charter Travel Corp., which specializes in scheduled charters and operates out of Chicago and Minneapolis, has added eight U.S. cities and three European destinations...
...engineering term for the process is organic patination, a technique believed to have been used in ancient times to add color to buildings. Manure is fermented in water for ten days, strained and applied to the walls. It stays on for at least a month before being hosed off. The gentle acidic effect of the mixture makes new construction look old and weathered. Admits Dan Witt, A. & M.'s assistant director of facilities: "We were a little surprised by the process." But he won't be surprised by the jokes...
...city's high tenant populations joins hands with the white collar professionals the back the Cambridge Civic Association--a liberal coalition which, at age 40, is the nation's oldest municipal party. They are opposed by the more traditional ethnic and the landholders, who make up the Independents. Every add-numbered year is an election year (this being no exception) and at that time, the two groups fight over governing. The rest of the time they fight over issues. A brief explanation of both...
...Week But while the immediate issue sparking the outburst was the events it soon became clear that broader issues lay under the surface. The demonstrations led to more general complaints about University policy such as the veto of the Third World Center, and insufficient minority professors and administrators which add up to a feeling on the part of some minority students that Harvard simply does not care about them...
...add the massive and unwieldy tax system you have the picture of a welfare state of a most ingrained nature. Like Reagan supporters in the U.S., Thatcherites like their talk tough, but their heroine has yet to really tackle the issues she has been using for political capital these four years...