Word: du
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...workday used to begin at 8 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. for all 46 workers in the compensation and benefits division at Du Pont's corporate headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Since July, the unit's employees have trickled in between 7 and 9:30 a.m., chosen a half-hour or one-hour lunch, and left between 3:30 and 6 p.m. -- as long as they have put in eight hours each day. Secretary Joann Wolanski, 28, picked an early shift; she begins at 7:30, takes a half-hour lunch and leaves at 4. The result: more time...
...du-dx; e to the x, dx; cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u, dv; slapstick, slide rule, MIT."--The school cheer for MIT last Saturday during its first varsity football game in 87 years...
...Hospital in London. She recalls how he left her (pounds)500 (then worth more than $2,000) in his will, saying "I will be a window in your home." The words are now engraved below a window in St. Christopher's lobby. The other relationship, which her biographer, Shirley du Boulay, calls "unconsummated, unfulfilled, unresolved," was with a refugee in a home for the dying in east London, where she had gone to work as a newly trained doctor. Saunders is not one to reflect deeply on these obviously profound friendships, other than to say, with an almost dismissive formality...
...P.L.O. delegation traveled to Egypt last week and won President Hosni Mubarak's support for a plan to "offer through a provisional government a political program that would be internationally acceptable," a P.L.O. official said. Speaking to the Paris weekly Journal du Dimanche, Arafat's second in command, Salah Khalaf, said the new agenda "would be completely different" from the 1968 National Charter calling for "armed struggle" to destroy Israel...
MOST PIE-IN-THE-SKY SUGGESTION. Former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont's invitation to Jesse Jackson to join the Republicans. "The ground you seek is here, in New Orleans, in the party of Lincoln and Reagan and Bush and Kemp and Bork...