Word: houre
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Field spoke for an hour on "The Mass of the Universe" in the first of a series of astronomy lectures designed for non-specialists...
Breslow's burden is eased by her 45-hour-a-week housekeeper, who watches the children while both parents are at work. She and her husband, a professor at the Medical School, came up with this expensive solution to "the dual career problem" by making use of their two professional salaries. She and her husband also share equally in child-rearing tasks...
...move to attract more nonbusiness customers and to fill half-empty, off-peak-hour flights, European air executives are starting to realize what their American counterparts learned this summer: lower fares lead to more customers and greater profits. Recently British Airways reduced prices as much as 40%, pegging the London-Paris round trip at $92.50, vs. this summer's $154. Lufthansa, Alitalia and KLM next week will reduce fares 15% to 25% on some flights between Germany, Italy and The Netherlands. Air France is also getting into the act with a 40% reduction on some of its round trip...
...Collection (Oct. 25, PBS, 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Not terribly much happens during this hour-long play by Harold Pinter. Phones ring at odd times of night. A London boutique owner unexpectedly drops in on a dress designer who lives in a baroque town house down the road. Two men almost stage a duel with delicate cheese knives. A husband fears that his wife may have had an affair in a hotel room in Leeds. Not much happens during The Collection, but by the time the play is over at least three lives have been shattered. That's the wonder...
Sears answered questions during much of his one and a half hour talk and discussed his days as a procession leader in Harvard graduation, when his main responsibility "was to make sure President Pusey got to his seat...