Word: compacter
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...Compact shelving, which involves installing new hardware. Stacks are put on rollers with just enough maneuvering room to permit access to one-stack at a time. The Law School's 1.4 million volume Langdell Library has been able to install compact, shelving successfully and came the burden there, as has the 160,000 volume Tozzer Library in the Peabody Museum...
...compact shelving is impossible in much of the Harvard College Library, first because the shelves in Widener act as supports for the floors above them, and in other cases, because the structures can't take any more weight...
...named book-buying funds, is seeking more, and recently established several named endowment funds for which it seeks donors. At the top are a $5 million bibliographers program, a $3 million microforms center, a $2 million preservation center, and a host of other funds to support senior librarians' salaries, compact shelving, curators, and other goals...
...Foreign Minister or Finance Minister, along with safe seats for Weizman and the two other Yahad members in the next Knesset election. Likud officials, who reportedly offered to rotate the office of Prime Minister between Shamir and Weizman if the maverick would side with them, were incensed by the compact. Deputy Prime Minister David Levy accused Labor of acting like "thieves in the night," while other Cabinet ministers labeled Weizman a "traitor" and a "backstabber." The new Labor ally dismissed the charges, pointing out that Likud had refused his request to join their ticket before the elections...
...women on the U.S. team admit that there is a "fear factor" to 10-meter competition. Wendy Wyland, a compact, agile, formidably confident 19-year-old who was the current world champion as competition started, talks of her "cat sense," and says that she has never for so much as an instant been lost in the air. Nevertheless, her fear of losing her orientation in mid-dive is so great that she seeks help for it from a sports psychologist who is on call to the team. Michele Mitchell, 22, missed her hand grab (divers clasp their hands as they...