Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the union is signing up members routinely, and the great thing about unions and democracy is that each member conceives of the union uniquely. Members could oppose the current leadership, or the current leadership's goals, as long as they agreed to work through the union's basic procedures...
...faster than fresh- vegetable stands. Customers get a lot more these days than a soak and a dunk. A typical visit includes a choice of manicures (French, oil or glue), a hand massage and acrylic sculpting to strengthen and lengthen the nails. Prices range from $5 for the basic treatment to $50 or more for an extensive...
...research project now being planned is the billiondollar Superconducting Super Collider to be built in Texas. This will no doubt be an impressive piece of equipment, of considerable value to American and world particle physicists. But extremely large projects like this eat up tremendous amounts of the budget for basic and applied research. By spreading our money around to a variety of potentially fruitful areas, we will be hedging our bets for technical breakthroughs, and likely get a larger amount of information for our expense...
...scores on basic skills tests, teachers' salaries $4000 below the statewide average, and a nearly 50 percent rate of students who do not speak English as a first language have also called the school system to the attention of the University...
...knows? And, finally, does it matter? For the business of these two agents in Mississippi, who are never referred to by their first names, is not to typify realistically an institution, but to represent two basic, conflicting human responses to being cast by chance in a tragic historical drama. Anderson and Ward are investigating the disappearance of three civil rights workers, two Northern college students and a local black -- a fictional case obviously inspired by the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, workers in the 1964 drive to register black voters in the Deep South...