Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kids, listen!!! Now, only you, me, and the guys who drafted that Harvard-CIA contract are gonna know this--you know those magnetic strips on the back of your Bursars cards? Well, listen really closely to them sometime. (Not in a room where there are Russians or Rice Krispies--interferenceville, man...) Anyway, you year what I hear? Blip, Blip, Blip!!! A master computer is keeping tabs on us! Have you ever gotten off on the seventh floor of Holyoke Center? I thought not!! Y'see, that's where they keep the damn computer that watches us--Blip! Blip! Blip...
...originally designed," a friend of ours who ought to know tells us. "And that is to afford each student in the University the opportunity to have a positive form of identification with which to gain access to University libraries, charge books therefrom, and, if the student is on board contract, to eat in the University dining halls. That is the reason why, you will note, we have chosen to draw a formal distinction between the "Bursars cards" available at Harvard, and the "Student Identification" cards routinely available elsewhere. It's not just another Harvard quirk, as you can now plainly...
Negotiations between the University and the Harvard Patrolmen's Association continued Friday without any clear indications of progress toward settlement of the policemen's five-month-old contract dispute...
...added that the union does not know when the talks, which have faltered continually since the policemen's current contract expired last January, will resume...
Although Powers would not predict a date for final settlement of the police contract, he said he is "optimistic" that both sides can reach an agreement before the extension of the current contract expires July...