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...program would also force students to exhaust their bank accounts by the time they received their degree--an objectionable requirement to Ph.D. candidates facing a glutted job market...
...stops, cruising and idling, turning and backing up. Even so, company engineers must wait four months to get the results they want: a series of cars that have clocked 50,000 miles each of simulated commuter driving on Los Angeles freeways with almost no repair work. Only after the exhaust emissions from vehicles thus tested have been measured can the automakers know whether the engines scheduled for introduction the following September will meet federal antipollution standards...
...criteria proposed last week would oblige teaching fellows to exhaust their bank accounts by the time they received their degree, would required a two-fifths teaching fellow to pay some tuition out of the extra income he or she received for teaching that second fifth, and would put a low limit on income a spouse could earn before a married teaching fellow became ineligible for a full abatement...
...system was not designed to exhaust the candidates or bankrupt the party or elect Richard Nixon. But it seems to be doing all three. Around the White House, the least euphoric Republican says he is merely "confident" that Nixon will win. The others are gloating over the opposition's predicament. While the Democrats have always engaged in intraparty bloodletting, the wounds they are inflicting this year are going to take longer to heal...
...Griffith Park you realize that the city does not have long to go. Of course it's just possible that William Lear's steam-turbine car may solve the problem or that people will settle for small, light electric putt-putts before they choke on their own exhaust, but not likely. In Los Angeles there is just no replacement for that mammoth steel hunk, that roaring brute car that shrinks the land, expands your reach with churning heady acceleration, burst of speed, smell of rubber, and sends you floating dangerously at dizzy speeds, free and loose and careless...