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These services include everything from handling laundry machine repairs to helping sophomores adjust to the House, to handling any type of complaints about House life. Last spring when Adams House was wracked by the pangs of renovations. DiNunzio recalls, he met with construction supervisors as often as several times a day to relay complaints about inconveniences such as early-morning jackhammering. The jackhammering stopped...
...play aspires to a level beyond a humorous examination of stereotypes but it does not have much time to adjust to the rapid turn of events. This third act is hurried with too many changes of scene and characters to effectively explore the reactions of anyone. While this collapse echoes the disintegration of the N.E.P., the end of the play fails to balance and counteract the lightheartedness of the first two acts...
...Bretton Woods arrangements called for countries to establish fixed exchange rates for their currencies. Nations could adjust them only under extreme conditions. In addition, foreign governments could theoretically redeem any dollars they held for gold, which thus served as an underpinning for the system. But these arrangements came apart in 1971, when the Nixon Administration, faced with the possibility that other nations could demand more gold than the U.S. had, stopped exchanging the metal for dollars. Without gold as an anchor, exchange rates began to float freely...
Five guards took their posts in the death house, two to adjust electrodes, one at the blue lethal door, two to call at the cells. One newsgatherer, W. E. Playfair of the Associated Press, was included among the seven official witnesses of man killing...
...however, in a more limited, pragmatic, undazzling idealism? Einstein said, "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." How would the grand seers answer the questions one faces in late 1983: How to maintain the balance of world powers without sacrificing principle or national safety? How to adjust a heavy-industry economy down to the size of a microchip? How to feed the starving, to educate the ignorant? How to reconcile majority rule with minority rights, individualism and democracy, higher law and popular sovereignty? How to create an art of human values in a world of mass culture...