Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...save the nation some gasoline. The firms have started their own bus services, using twelve-passenger minivans that usually go right to each worker's doorstep. General Mills, Inc. has bought 13 of the vans carrying some 150 workers daily, while 3M Co. has 65 vans that haul some 700 people. Regular workers moonlight as part-time chauffeurs; they get free rides collect whatever profits remain after expenses are met and can use the vans during off hours. Generally they earn about $8.50 for 7½ hours' driving per week. The riders pay roughly 2.5? per mile, which...
...parquet floor. In fact, it was another Italian spe cialita della casa-art theft. In the hours before dawn, thieves had broken in through a window and spirited off about $2.3 million worth of paintings left to the museum in 1956 by Sicilian Industrialist Carlo Grassi. The haul included a Cezanne, a Bonnard, a Renoir, a Vuillard, a Van Gogh, a Gauguin, a Millet and a brace of Corots. The thieves, said Director Mercedes Garberi, "displayed a very refined taste." Giovanni Spadolini, Italy's Minister of the Cultural Patrimony, was already in shock from the theft of two Piero...
...about the issue arises from different perceptions of the two institutions, a gut reaction over which one arouses greater distrust: Radcliffe, laden with 100 years of unrealized potential, or Harvard, with a record of 300 years of discrimination and indifference to women. Women agree that they have a long haul ahead before they'll be fully accepted into Harvard and into society as a whole; they disagree over whether they should rest their hopes with Harvard or with Radcliffe...
...explotive side of that disproportion. Agreed that eating several meatless meals a week is not so great a sacrifice. It requires less effort than training to build elementary water systems in Africa, as one student I know is doing, or working in one's home community over a long haul to build a class conscious, worker-led movement, to use another acquaintance as an example. That doesn't mean that every smaller or less politically conscious commitment...
...contracts for 69 new F-15 fighters in the next two years instead of the 72 it had planned. The Navy may be forced to purchase 21 rather than 30 new destroyers next year. The Army is reluctantly setting aside its plans to buy heavy-lift helicopters that can haul 22.5 tons...