Word: intendancy
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...University performed its version of "student consultation." Spence agreed to try to make North the Quad's hot breakfast dispensory, but it turned out that the North dining hall is too small and food has to be served from several different lines in different rooms. Yet the administrators intend to rotate hot breakfasts within each of the four "spheres" every year, so that they'll have to squeeze all the Quad students into the North dining rooms pretty soon anyway--an apparent contradiction. So Spence went up to North and met with five or six students and a master...
Some who are skeptical about how much sacrifice is necessary are nevertheless willing to make personal decisions that, if multiplied by millions, would create the shifts Carter's plan seeks. Vance Nimrod of Greenville, Miss., does not intend to get rid of his current Cadillac, but vows: "I'll never buy another one." Richard Otis, a bricklayer in Memphis, had been thinking about buying a Lincoln Continental, but is now looking at smaller cars. Even without the possibility of increased oil-heating costs, Patty Hotchkiss, a town board member in Bedford, N.Y., is looking for a small, well-insulated house...
...concentration requirements' eventual form--vague for two and a half years. But while the specific requirements are spelled out in a booklet issued in February, the reasoning behind them is still unclear. The concentration booklet offers only a tautology to justify the new system: "The concentration requirement is intended to insure that each student give thought to at least one area of medicine in reasonable depth prior to graduation." It is a statement of what the requirement entails, not an explanation of why it should exist. Faculty members offer little more explanation than the booklet--they only add vague notions...
...really haven't heard about these management-labor overtones yet--we intend to focus on all of the aspects and liabilities of the department," he said...
...Radcliffe sailors anything to luff at. The women are the only team in the country that has made it to the championship regatta for the last nine years running, and they don't intend to let that record sink this year...