Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sketches are pretty wispy stuff, ranging from a government clerk sneezing on a general at a most inopportune moment to a dental student ecstatically extracting a tooth to a virago making life pluperfect hell for a gout-prone bank manager. The second half of the show is distinctly brighter and breezier than the first. The entire cast is not only exemplary, but extraordinarily versatile, and Christopher Plummer, as usual, provides superior acting with facile, enviable ease...
...early December, when it will appear in the morning sky. By early January, its tail-formed when the gases boiling off the comet are swept away from the sun by charged solar particles-may stretch across one-sixth of the evening sky. In fact, Kohoutek may glow many times brighter than Halley's comet, which blazed across...
...initial paid circulation of 100,000. With 38 ad pages in the first issue, New Times has already won some support from advertisers. Its name talent is sure to attract reader interest. With a little experience in working together, New Times's colorful crew should throw some brighter parties in the future. -Before the first issue went to press, two writers whose names had figured prominently in Hirsch's promotional efforts defected noisily. Jack Newfield, an investigative reporter and assistant editor of the Village Voice, and Pete Hamill, a New York Post columnist, demanded that their names...
...hold more positions of leadership, and have more women teachers and administrators to emulate. At women's colleges students also are more likely to enter such traditionally "male" fields as science. Recalling his own college days at coed Swarthmore, Kerr said, "We men felt the girls there were brighter than we were, but we felt the girls at Bryn Mawr were even brighter...
Airport planning, under the engineering firm of Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton (TAMS), was so far ahead of its time that many features resulted in an updating of FAA regulations. New patterns of lighting for both centers and edges of runways, as well as brighter, low-glare runway signs for pilots, will now become mandatory. TAMS also persuaded the FAA that conventional twelve-inch runways were not thick enough. DFW uses 17 inches of concrete, enough to receive million-pound aircraft (a fully loaded, stretched 747 weighs 880,000 lbs.). Furthermore, the runways are designed for thickening to 24 inches...