Word: hums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...requirements that each student would have to take, in addition to courses in his or her concentration. The scheme was simple, at least on the surface: the range of disciplines was divided into the Social Sciences. Natural Sciences and Humanities (affectionately known as Soc Sci, Nat Sci and Hum), with the Committee on General Education offering introductory courses in each area. Each student would have to take two half-courses in two of the three areas--the two areas that were not related to his field of concentration. (An example, for the confused--in this case probably the majority: John...
Washington's reaction to last week's sell-off was ho hum, with officials arguing that it was not as bad as the confusion that gripped international money markets between October and April. Said one high U.S. economic policymaker: "The right yen-dollar relationship has never been found"; and he predicted that the dollar could go to 180 yen before Japanese exports would be adversely affected...
...scholarly way does not bring back profit. But there are dreams, dash-dash, even in academia, dot dot dot, that money cannot buy." His last sentence, he explains, is a pun of a '40s avant-garde film called Dreams That Money Can Buy, which he screened for Hum 193 this year...
LUCKILY, Sleeping Beauty depends far more on the heroine than on her prince, and in the Boston production Elaine Bauer and glowing theatrical spectacle managed to tip the balance between ho-hum and lovely, creating a delightful evening from what might have been an embarrassing antique...
...paid in the form of a special dividend. Instead, Chairman Milliken, apparently fearing an unfriendly takeover attempt, paid $66 a share for Carborundum. The rationale: the bigger the company, the more difficult it is to finance a raid. By paying more than twice the book value for a ho-hum company, Milliken let himself in for savage criticism of his business judgment. John Bogert, a former Kennecott employee who is a copper analyst with Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, says of Milliken and his board: "They're not about to give things out to shareholders. They think of the company...