Word: fours
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Help for Dropouts. The system is so flexible that needy students can hold part-time jobs all year, attend school part time and still meet graduation requirements. The curriculum developed for the four-quarter plan offers 710 courses, most of which can be taken out of any established sequence. Students now can choose among 48 English courses of one-quarter length, where before there were only five year-long courses...
Atlanta has requested but not received state funds for its four-quarter project. As a result, it is paying more than $1,000,000 beyond its regular $71 million school budget for the summer quarter. School officials maintain nonetheless that the city's fast-growing industries-and thus the city itself-will benefit financially when vacations are spread more evenly over the entire year. Until this year, most working parents took vacations in the summer, when their children were out of school, resulting in summertime business slowdowns and production losses. Another advantage of the summer quarter lies in providing...
...Good. The two dozen recruit novelists who signed up for the project-including Newsday Editor Bill McIlwain -plunged in. Less than three weeks later, with 15 chapters in hand, McGrady issued a stern warning against inconsistencies: "Four chapters have described Gillian's body in terms of alabaster," he noted. "Two have insisted she is heavily tanned. For future reference: she will be lightly tanned during the summer months; the word alabaster will be appropriate beginning midway through the month of November." The real problem, however, was in the quality of the writing. "Everybody has the feeling they can write...
What enrages the workers is that Arndt, now 31, admittedly devotes his life to a pursuit of pleasure. He spends his money supporting his yachts, estates and Rolls-Royces and buying extravagant gifts for his wife, former Austrian Princess Heñriette von Auersperg, who is four years older than he, and for the many men friends whose company he cherishes. "If Ruhrkohle takes over the responsibility of paying for Arndt, the state will be financing his playing," said Horst Niggermeier, a union official. "Is it right for 1,000 miners to work to support one playboy...
...Minos Colocotronis, 50, has accumulated 30 ships totaling 1,000,000 tons in just about four years. Instead of placing orders with shipyards and waiting two or three years for delivery, he buys secondhand ships. This protects him against drops in freight rates between ordering and the time of delivery...