Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...file cabinets stuffed with manila folders being wheeled aimlessly from room to room. There are the rows and columns of identical desks equipped with identical chairs. The officials have endless meetings and conferences and appointments. The staffers debate which color pen is appropriate for which report. The secretaries discuss where to file the reports. If someone is sick the flow of work goes on to all appearances unchanged around the empty desk. To disregard a novel as part of a fringe genre because it considered the impact of technology would be to ignore a fact of life. Lem extrapolates...
...Historians] manage to discuss the reform of insane asylums in the first half of the 19th century without mentioning Dorothea Dix, muckraking without mentioning Ida Tarbell, and the Montgomery bus boycott without mentioning Rosa Parks...
...School's faculty council discussed the report at its meeting Tuesday, and will continue to discuss it at the next of its monthly meetings. After the council finishes its consideration and offers any amendments, the report must be presented to the School's entire faculty for discussion and approval before the suggestions may be implemented...
Dean Kilbridge and other GSD officials, including John F. Kain, chairman of the City and Regional Planning Department, refused yesterday to comment on the report. Several said they would not speak because the Board of Overseers had asked them not to discuss reports of the visiting committee...
...that there is all that much staff work to be done. At 9:30 a.m. every morning, the chiefs gather around a large rectangular table where they discuss union matters until noon. After lunch, they join the leisure class for the rest of the day. The daytime pleasures include golf, deep-sea fishing, the thoroughbreds at nearby Gulfstream Park and gin rummy beside the pool. By night, the union moguls could be found at restaurants like the Americana's Gaucho Room-known in AFL-CIO circles as the "Gotcha Room," in honor of its $70 steak dinner...