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...Curawara, a resistance committee for the valley was formed and the first decision made was that no agricultural produce would leave for La Paz, in keeping with the strike and blockades called by CONADE. They also decided to suspend sports events and observance of religious holidays that would detract from the efforts at hand. Then the assembly addressed the question of security. The campesinos were assigned to guard the lower valley, the only alternative entrance to Viloco. Each community was responsible for providing 15 men for a 24 hour shift. Women stepped forward and asked what they could...
...growing family, life on the plains of central Kansas was far from easy," and crops up yet again 100 pages later as. "For the frontier teacher, life on the job was far from easy." Such observations add nothing to our understanding of the pioneering experience and detract from the women's spirited accounts. Amy M. Loucks' recollection of suturing a scalped friend "with a fiddle string and common needle" more effectively conveys the same message...
...Receipt of first-year grades can lend to the first year a layer of tension and competitiveness intense enough to detract from the educational process," the report states...
...tabling the issue. The CRP proposal, part of the Faculty's attempt to develop guidelines governing professors' outside work, would amend a 15-year-old University policy on conflicts of interest by distinguishing between conventional conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment, in which a professors' outside activities could detract from his time spent at the University...
...love' may be," the ensemble of "lovesick maidens" is sneaking up on her and trying to strangle her with their tear-stained handkerchieves, only to trip over themselves as she steps out of their path. Hellmold sings sweetly and sincerely, and it is a shame that the chorus should detract from her performance...