Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several trucks, including a ladder, rushed to the scene at 12:55 p.m. caused some instructors to dismiss their classes early. An alarm rang in the building a few minutes later...
...Brown is hailed as "big, fast and mean." Pottios is highly rated because he "can play either offense or defense, which makes him a good risk for the pros." The pros are also after Virginia Tech's unsung Mike Zeno, 21 (5 ft. 11 in., 240 Ibs.), but dismiss the chances of Colorado's Joe Romig, who made the first team of the United Press International's All-America. Says one scout: At 5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs., "Romig is just too small to play anywhere...
...million for these advantages, its offer came at a bad time for British morale. Their auto industry's lucrative export business to the U.S. has been sharply cut by U.S. compacts. British Motors was forced to put 70,000 on short work weeks; Standard-Triumph had to dismiss 1,700 of its 8,000 workers; British Ford slashed overtime for 30,000. Pleas to the government to spur domestic sales by easing tight credit restrictions have been turned down by Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, who ruled that any encouragement of domestic sales would reduce the incentives...
Although there was a general feeling that a 1923 Faculty recommendation limiting the Freshman class to 1000 students was now out-dated, the Faculty was reluctant simply to dismiss the issue by rescinding the recommendation...
...Inevitably, the dictatorship is losing some popular support. At the peak, Castro had 90% of Cuba's people with him; the figure today is estimated at around 50%. One top underground leader told friends he no longer worried that servants would betray him. Cubans who used to dismiss the Communism charges as right-wing American propaganda are beginning to wake up. A shudder of fear swept Havana last week when a rumor got around that the government was planning to "nationalize" children along Communist lines...