Word: build
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...Though Eastern Europe continues to hymn the glories of "worker" states and exhort its able-bodied to "work together to build a better life under socialism," the unsocialist truth is that its workers have become just about the world's biggest goof-offs. In Rumania, they cost industry $75 million in wasted time during the first four months of this year. Bulgaria lost 25 million man-days last year because of absenteeism. When Polish factory workers show up at all, says the Communist trade-union paper Glos Pracy, they "work only about 70% of their normal eight-hour...
...state legislature budget hearing, University of Oklahoma President George L. Cross was once asked why he wanted so much more money for his school. Answered Cross: "We want to build a university of which the football team can be proud." He meant it as a joke, and the remark does seem inappropriate today: Oklahoma's football fortunes have been on the decline since the resignation of Coach Charles ("Bud") Wilkinson in 1964, while Cross has been steadily nudging his school toward standards of quality achieved by such state university giants as California, Wisconsin and Michigan...
...last month, despite endorsements from civic organizations, PTAs and school officials, voters rejected a $10 million school bond issue. At the same time, citizens of the Center school district in Kansas City, Mo., were turning down-for the third time in a row-a $600,000 bond issue to build a new elementary and junior high school. The same week, homeowners in Ann Arbor, Mich., refused to approve a real estate tax hike to pay for teachers' salary increases; the teachers are now threatening to strike...
...sseldorfs reigning neo-Dada hero. He is celebrated for his Chaplinesque smile, battered Homburg, octopuslike drawings, sculptures made of chocolate and lard, for the splendiferous happenings that he used to stage and, above all, for the fertile chaos of his classrooms. Students in a Beuys class are permitted to build, sculpt or paint literally anything, from kinetic doodads to studies of Beuys himself...
When they opened for business last spring, the brash young founders of Manhattan's new advertising agency, Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc., promised to "build the most profitable agency in history." With a flair that made even Madison Avenue eyebrows twitch, they started out by getting just about the most publicity in history...