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Eisenstadt, who is 30 years old and a lawyer, serves on the School Committee which is gradually being emasculated; it no longer controls its own budget and it no longer can pick school sites or construct school buildings. Most of its real power, like that of the City Council, has passed to the Mayor. Few people give serious attention to the members of the School Committee or the Council, primarily because they can do very little. Eisenstadt, to be sure, has a following but it exists only in his own neighborhood...
...more than construct the replicas. She was also responsible for the creation of the Department of Legal Medicine itself...
...Florida, the state convention cut its annual support for Stetson University from $270,000 to $150,000, and seriously debated whether to cut off all funds for the Baptist school. Stetson's offense was accepting $845,000 in federal grants to construct a science building and add to its law school. By contrast, the Kentucky convention in effect authorized Baptist-backed schools in the state to accept federal loans if their administrators...
Robbe-Grillet. "It is-quite simply." In his novels, Robbe-Grillet aims at a "certain ceremonious solidity, often slow-moving, with a theatrical sense which sometimes fixes the attitudes of characters in a rigidity of gestures, words and decor, recalling a statue or an opera." Finally, he tries to "construct a space and time purely mental, that of a dream or memory...
Seems that in the bill is a teensy clause authorizing the Secretary of Transportation to "develop and construct a civil supersonic transport." Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D.-Wash.) who helped slip the seven words into the bill isn't sure what they mean; neither is the chief counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee who wrote...