Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard-Radcliffe shuttle bus service will add a bus and extend its routes to cover the Brattle St., Divinity School and Peabody Terrace areas, beginning next Monday. Buses will also run at more frequent intervals...
Dean Rosovsky warms students to prepare for the winter's oil shortage. "We plan to lengthen winter recess four months and extend the school year until October. Seniors will have the option of finishing their studies or not," Rosovsky says. "Under our Optional Graduation Plan, seniors with prior commitments for next fall may send in the appropriate matchbook cover for our Harvard-at-Home Handy Study Course...
Such changes have drawn mixed reactions; not all parents are happy to have their children home out of school. Parents in Connecticut jammed a public meeting and shouted down a state-wide plan to extend the Christmas vacation to a month starting Dec. 14. In Texas, a proposed temporary cut of one hour in the school day was defeated by public protest...
According to Revel's interpretation of the photos, the cell sprouts thin, veil-like folds along its forward edge-that is, in the direction of movement. These folds or ruffles grow upward, extend out like an arm and then drop to the surface, adhering firmly to it. Once the forward edge is anchored, the cell flows into and over the ruffles, almost as if it were pulling itself along. As the body of the cell moves over the folds, other ruffles grow along the cell's new leading edge, and in turn attach themselves to the surface. Thus...
...holiday will lead to massive layoffs. The British Steel Corp. plans to cut production 50%; 100,000 of its 250,000 steelworkers will be laid off in the first week in January. As the effects of the cutback spread through the auto, machinery, and textile industries, the layoffs could extend into the millions...