Word: clogged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eggs somewhere on the crossing, and the trick was to keep the eggs from rotting. First, she learned, turn the eggs once a week (it takes one week for the yolk to drop to the bottom, touching the shell and commencing to rot). Second, coat them with vaseline (to clog the porous shell and keep moisture and oxygen away from the yolk). For good measure, they had taken two live chickens. Michel promised them, "If you lay one egg, I will spare your life." The chickens contributed their lives to the larder...
...large fraction of the faculties throughout the nation are composed of professors tenured in the 1950s and 1960s in response to the expanding student enrollments of the baby boom generation. "If the mandatory age is uncapped when these professors reach retirement age in the next 12 years, they will clog up the tenure system," says Shattuck...
Assuming that the exemption from the mandatory retirement age will not be renewed, the University is currently considering a number of possible plans to alleviate an anticipated clog up of the tenure system...
...harmful to universites to clog the ranks," says Riesman. He retired by his own choice because "I should make way for someone, provided I have the facilities to work...
...desperate man. Lewis (not his real name) had been suffering from severe heart disease for most of his adult life. His condition was due largely to a genetic disorder that afflicts 1 in 500 Americans, causing abnormally high levels of cholesterol to accumulate in the blood and ultimately clog the arteries. In Lewis' case, the strictest low-fat diet and all the drugs that medicine could muster had failed to control the problem. By the time he was 47, his arteries were so blocked--a condition known as atherosclerosis--that he required quadruple-bypass surgery. Nine years later a double...