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Students in Tribe's constitutional law course, one of the largest courses in the Law School, have an eight-hour take-home exam that can be taken on either Thursday, Friday or Saturday...
...Stratomatic. New York teenager Chris Boeth can play a solitaire game in about 13 minutes, he reports. That is fast; still... "Let's see, there's 162 games in a regular season. And, of course, 26 teams in the two leagues ..." It works out to 57 eight-hour days of living-room baseball a year. "Except that when I play with my father, it takes longer, so it's probably more...
Haldeman was assigned last week to general maintenance work in Lompoc's power plant. His eight-hour shift begins at 7:50 a.m. Mitchell must go through an orientation week before receiving his assignment, but is expected to be given clerical duties in the prison where his color photograph was once prominently displayed beside Nixon's. The wardens in the two institutions insist that neither man will receive special treatment, but Mitchell was routed away from the minimum security camp at Allenwood, Pa., where he normally would have gone. Reason: Allenwood is now overcrowded, and federal officials feared...
...betting is that when the U.A.W. and the automakers next wrangle in 1979, the union will use its Ford contract as a springboard for demanding a real four-day week-not four days and 40 hours, but an eight-hour day, four days a week...
...sixpack, Mr. Average American. As of last week-May 4, to be exact-you started working for yourself instead of the Government. By the reckoning of Tax Foundation, Inc., the average wage earner on an eight-hour day had to work four months and four days this year just to pay his federal, state and local taxes. Figured on a daily basis, the tax bite seems no less painful: for two hours and 42 minutes of Mr. Average's day, he labors for those who serve...