Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, anti-stars, who fight against the inducements and erosions of the big time. People like Olivia Hussey, Robert Redford and David Warner have nothing against fame, but they trade on it to gain freedom?the freedom to choose their roles and their directors. The once-desirable studio contract now looks like slavery...
...Dallas and Cleveland, the chemicals have been injected into sewer lines to speed the flow of wastes and thus increase the capacity of the disposal system. Dallas has reported a 2.5-fold increase in flow through a test line. California's TRW Systems has received a Navy contract to investigate the possibility of using long-chain polymers to make torpedoes run faster...
...years. Lamp-industry workers of the '40s are still dying from berylliosis, a lung disease brought on by exposure to beryllium, a lightweight metal used for coating fluorescent lighting tubes. Similarly, workers who inhale tiny, indestructible fibers of asbestos as they are blown into place for insulation can contract lung cancer more than two decades later. Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, an expert in asbestos-related illness, predicts that 40% of today's 36,000 insulation installers could eventually die of cancer as a result of their work...
...credit for ROTC courses were withdrawn, what would become of ROTC at Harvard? There is no specific legal requirement that ROTC courses be granted academic credit towards the A.B. degree. Though the contracts specify that academic credit is to be granted, there is no legal reason why the contracts cannot be amended. It has in fact proved possible to amend the Army contract to waive, in a given year and with the permission of the Secretary of the Army, the requirement that 100 members be enrolled in the basic course whenever the basic course is given...
...Yale's contract with the Department of the Army stipulates that no changes may be made in the ROTC program without one year's notice. Consequently, there will be no changes made this year...