Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keeping the flame lighted after it arrives on U.S. soil may be tricky. On practice runs in March, the flame kept going out. The maker of the torch has switched to a higher-grade propane, but as a precaution, a second Olympic flame will be kept burning in a lantern along the route...
...engineering talent. China will put up another $240 million. The 30-year agreement calls for the Chinese eventually to take over management. Antaibao's 1.4 billion tons of proven reserves could make it the world's largest open-pit mine after production starts in 1987. Its high-grade coal will be sold to Pacific-basin countries, but low-quality coal will go to the domestic market...
...come up with two cogent open letters while the student body has turned over three times. Even in 1972, Bok and his cohorts were seriously considering the worthiness of divestiture; many of those, who now compare that same group to rednecks and Klansmen, were in third grade, learning where South Africa...
...Michael Spence, dean of the Faculty designate, whose semester long training session ends July 1. At February's Faculty meeting, when President Bok announced Spence's appointment to the Faculty, Rosovsky jocularly promised to grade Spence and report back. These days, he says, he is pleased with Spence's progress, though "when we sit down we have so much to talk about (that) it's gone much slower than I expected...
There were drugs in David's room. Jay Pintacuda, chief medical examiner of the Palm Beach sheriff's department crime lab, said the police found 1.3 grams of high-grade cocaine. He reported that an autopsy discovered traces of cocaine and Demerol, a powerful prescription painkiller, in his body. But it was too early to know what exactly had caused his death...