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...Keep it over the weekend and you've bought it. Never, never get sick during exam period: each make-up exam carries a fee of $25. Luckily, the Handbook for Students does offer some hope for relief, if you write to the Registrar four weeks in advance and cancel the exam, you are relieved of your financial obligations. You go scot-free. Unfortunately, you also fail the course...
...reasons provided as justification for the poor ratings is the weather, blistering winds and a catastrophic snowfall, which have forced Olympic organizers to cancel or reschedule certain events, thus making coverage sporadic and uninspiring...
...first began to look closely at the chemical in 1977, and by 1980 had proposed to cancel all food-related use (EDB is also added to gasoline to prevent lead deposits in engines). But then came the change in administrations and, with strong chemical industry lobbying against any restrictions, no action was taken under now-infamous EPA administrator Anne Burford Last September, Ruckelshaus cancelled use of EDB as a soil fumigant, but only after significant amounts of residues of the chemical showed up in the ground water in several states. The current order extends the ban to use on grain...
...Cancel deployment or scrap weapons intended primarily for a counterforce-targeted against military installation and silos. If we do not intend to conduct a first strike, counterforce targeting would, logically, become unnecessary, since a second strike on Soviet silos would probably fall on empty holes...
...Sarajevo airport, for instance, is absurd. Fog rolls in almost every day just in time to delay or cancel the plane from Belgrade. A radar landing system was installed recently, but pilots who have managed to reach the city say that it often does not work. Landing-strip lights wink out during the nation's power brownouts. Trains sound like a good idea, but one New York visitor learned to his bafflement that it is not possible while still outside Yugoslavia to book a first-class train seat for a journey within Yugoslavia?Zagreb to Sarajevo, for example...