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...Harvard's recognition of the LPIU as the bargaining agent for the 34 Printing Office employees. They did not see any difference between their move to affiliate with the BCMC and the printing employees' affiliation with the LPIU. As negotiations between the University and the LPIU began to falter, however, many BGMA members grew more convinced that Harvard, underneath it all, was really antiunion...
With three-quarters to go, the Crimson pulled back together, and Penn started to falter. The gap widened. Harvard's time of 8:50.5 gave it a two and a half length win over the Quakers...
...confrontation, the author turns remote, reverts to brief explorations of life's enduring verities; and the reader is deprived of vital particulars. It is as if, viewing events from Olympus, Wilder sees the marvel of life but not the movement. The people of Coaltown, U.S.A. -Everytown, Universe-love, falter, hate, do good and deal in injustice, and carry on through eternity, still hanging on by the skin of their teeth, improving themselves a little as they go. In an old-fashioned mixture of Christian teaching and evolution, Dr. Gillies, Coaltown's resident philosopher, explains that each...
Dyslexics jumble left and right, lack the fine coordination needed in such activities as writing. Their balance is shaky; their sense of rhythm is faulty. They generally reason well but falter in shifting reasoning to symbols such as letters and numbers. Detecting the dyslexic is complicated by the fact that he is also likely to suffer from emotional problems. Although he is as bright as other kids, he becomes frustrated and angry over his poor reading, turns rebellious, seems not to care...
...pump in question was the plastic "half-heart" attached to the chest wall of Marcel L. DeRudder, 65, in Houston's Methodist Hospital (TIME, April 29). For more than 41 days, with never a falter after the first hour, it had done three-quarters of the work normally done by the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber. What suddenly killed DeRudder last week was a rupture of the left lung. A plastic tube slipped through a small cut in his windpipe had been delivering oxygen under pressure to his lungs. What actually caused the rupture...