Word: circularity
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...Nessen, who was Jerry Ford's man. "You've taken out the private bathroom," lamented George Christian, one of Lyndon Johnson's press officers, and still an astute judge of power perks. One of Christian's main innovations was still operational. That is a circular desk, situated in the office corner to prevent reporters from sneaking behind a press secretary and reading secret dispatches over his shoulder...
...past three decades, farmers have pumped water out of the Ogallala as if it were inexhaustible. Nowadays they disperse it prodigally through huge center-pivot irrigation sprinklers, which moisten circular swaths a quarter-mile in diameter. The annual overdraft (the amount of water not replenished) is nearly equal to the yearly flow of the Colorado River. Like all aquifers, the Ogallala depends on rain water for recharging, and only a trickle of the annual local rainfall ever reaches it. Gradually built up over millions of years, the aquifer is being drained in a fraction of that time. The question...
Because of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-21, professors doing research with Federal funds must now fill in "effort reports, "detailed breakdowns of the percentage of time they spend on research, teaching and other activities...
Both Financial Vice President Thomas A O'Brien, and Robert H Scott, director of financial systems, praised these and other revisions of Circular A-21, saying that they strike a good balance between Harvard's needs and the federal government's desire to have taxpayers money spent correctly...
...Criterium--a short (16-28 miles) race held on a circular course--the Crimson entered five men in the 28-mile mens "A" race, two in 20-mile "B" competition and two women in their 16-mile event Quite unexpectedly. Swansey finished second in the Men's B race, and sophomore Dove Scherr looked strong until she crashed late in the women's race...