Word: cafeteria
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...city is divided into 54 local school boards, which supposedly handle local needs, but everything is still red-taped by Livingston Street. Sometimes it takes a year to get a film from the central library; highly trained teachers languish on cafeteria patrol; requests to fix sagging roofs vanish in a Byzantine fog. For years, the bureaucracy left unspent most of the millions allocated for repairs to the schools (267 of them are 50 years old or more); the backlog of needed repairs is about $75 million. Bureaucracy stifles new teaching methods, which flourish in suburban public schools. Each year...
...ground was broken last spring for the first center building, Lyndon Johnson himself jetted in to announce that "the concept of the East-West Center is as broad as the vast Pacific area it will serve." Less cheerful were the students, many of them Moslems who boiled at the cafeteria menu, expressed themselves as "shocked" at the coeds' shorts. Other beefs: unavailable or inadequate courses and the wistful complaint, "This is not America...
...Stouffer's has done a very credible job," said L. Gard Wiggins, Administrative vice-President. "The student population likes the cafeteria; there have been relatively few complaints; and there has been greater variety than ever before...
Wiggins said that the University had no experience in operating a cafeteria where the number of diners varied from day to day. Thus, he explained, a private firm which had conducted this sort of operation before was more successful managing the dining hall...
...cafeteria manager regretfully remarked, "There have been very few students around recently, unfortunately. I'll be glad when exams are over. Jim Cronin, however, reported a booming business, beginning at 12:30 when students straggle in from morning exams. "They come in whether they hit or miss," against pushing it back any further, he said. "If they think they've done well, they drink to celebrate; if they've messed up a final, they come in to drown their sorrows...