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...road trips were something I had to get used to," said Blair. "You play a game in Milwaukee, then take an eight-hour bus ride to Muksegon or Fort Wayne and get there at seven or eight in the morning, and have to play that night. We would have to go on 12 or 15-day road trips and play eight or nine games in that span...
...decision did not increase military strength that much, but it was psychologically significant. After an eight-hour meeting of key officials last week, the government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone announced that its proposed new budget will raise defense spending to 1.004% of Japan's estimated 1987 gross national product. If adopted by the Diet, the outlays would exceed for the first time the 1% ceiling on defense spending that Japan has observed for the past ten years...
...boxy switches that turn electric motors on and off. Only 14 months old, Department 260's assembly line is not yet running at full speed. But when it does, working at a rate of 600 devices an hour, it will be able to make 4,800 in a single eight-hour shift. If required, it could turn out this volume for orders received the same...
...talk to, especially late at nightwhen the loneliness can become intense. In thereal world, friends get together when they havetime for lunch, or for a drink, or maybe to see amovie. People go to sleep after the 11 o'clocknews and awake in time for a busy eight-hour dayat the office. Life suddenly becomes a long strechof mundanity interspersed with a few intenseexperiences that are far between. I envy those whoare leaving here excited to the depths of theirsoul about a job or a trip or a fellowship, forthey will be eased out of the womb...
...Jesse L. Jackson and join a rally for divestment. That night, April 4, about 75 protesters camped outside President Derek C. Bok's office and created a non-violent obstacle course for the secretaries and executives attempting to enter the building. Three weeks later, 45 divestment activists staged an eight-hour sit-in at 17 Quincy St., the headquarters of Harvard's governing board. And the following week, about 200 activists attempted to barricade a room in which a top-ranking South African official was speaking...