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...newsroom of the Denver Post, reporters and editors cope with a company ban on smoking by gnawing on licorice roots and chewing on unlit cigars. Broward Davis & Associates, a surveying and consulting firm in Tallahassee, ) refuses to hire anyone who smokes. New England Telephone employees can take a puff in only half the company's rest rooms, and workers at United Technologies' Hartford headquarters must refrain from lighting up in any public work area...
Irony and astonishment are the orders of the day. In Pennsylvania, Nigel sits in on a college history class, only to find that the topic under discussion is how to cope with two children and a divorce. Adam, for his part, can only listen in bemusement as a woman named Ira Funk whisks him through her architectural folly in Venice, Calif., chuckling, "Those Tudors just could never have dreamed up even one small bit of this." The meeting of John Doe and John Bull is frequently incongruous. " 'What's the matter, Baby,' a nun with a beard and sparkle...
...difficult to draw firm conclusions from random interviews, but it is obvious that many Afrikaners regard the traditional apartheid as doomed. They anticipate significant changes and, though anxious and apprehensive, insist they are ready to cope with them. Whether they are really ready is another question...
...Fran Schumer '74 illustrates in Most Likely to Succeed, to have a profound impact on the female members of the class, who found themselves grappling with the strange and tumultuous era of the Vietnam War and women's liberation, while at the same time trying to cope with traditional pressures to be slim and pretty, leaving the old boys' network to the boys...
...Saturday's match had value, it was as a Practice--a bit more intense than most, but just a bit--and a preparation for the last leg of the season. Parsons Field is made of artificial turf, and the Crimson (a natural grass team) will have to cope with turf against Brown...