Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Students move in and out of the areas as they choose, create their own schedules, concentrate on their individual interests, and go to "closed classes," which are scheduled on a bulletin board in the middle of the school. A closed class is one which meets at a specified hour, and once a student commits himself to it he is supposed to do all the work the course demands. Psychology, life drawing, music theory, Third World history and literature, and Spanish are some examples...
...levels are measured is, unfortunately, enormously time-consuming. It requires the use of a complex air pumping device which, attached to a worker's belt, draws air through a hose connected to a filter pinned to his lapel. But even if measurement is taken over a two or three-hour period, it may not reflect the full extent of contamination, since the most dense exposure may occur only once a day or less when the substance is poured from shipping sacks into mixing bins, for example, generating huge plumes of dust...
...that meeting, but it doubtless was uppermost in the President's mind. For a large part of the week, he secluded himself in the Executive Office Building, pondering his next move. One night, accompanied by a White House doctor and a military aide, he cruised the Potomac for an hour and a half aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia. On another night he dined aboard the Sequoia with Wife Pat, Daughter Julie and her husband David Eisenhower. As Julie later recalled in a press conference with David, the President "said he would take this constitutionally down to the wire. If there...
...There is no need at this hour for anything from IRS and we have a couple of sources over there that I can go to . . . We can get right in and get what we need...
...adopted by the new art form. The results were often ludicrous but invariably profitable. To survive, almost every studio learned to experiment with musicals, but no company ever duplicated the burnish and exuberance of the MGM product. The proof can be found in That's Entertainment!, a two-hour retrospective backed by the current owners of MGM. These are operators who have converted studio real estate and properties into the MGM Grand Hotel, a Las Vegas monument to brashness and vulgarity. Still, if they are contemptuous of the future, they are worshipful of the past-with sound reason. That...