Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mount Palomar telescope revealed no evidence at all of networks of straight lines or other manifestations of intelligent life on Mars, the fascination continued. Fredric Brown's novel Martians, Go Home, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Robert Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land, and the popular Buck Rogers comic strip all involved encounters with Martians of various sizes, shapes and consistencies...
...Buck insisted TFs were unnecessary for manycourses and that the policy change was not aresult of budget constraints...
...look at the way support teaching staffhas grown, you wonder if any good has come out ofthis," Buck said...
When Summer School professors arrived to teach, several said that although a letter about the changes was sent by Buck, they didn't talk to him about the matter and were surprised to find that teaching assistants had not been assigned to their courses. The professors said they wrote letters and called the Summer School office until TFs were finally found...
...took the professors rather longer than was necessary to realize that we were serious," Buck said...