Word: labs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kibbutz members, though they deposit their profits in the treasury that maintains the collective farm. The workers nevertheless labor hard-kibbutz factories raised their productivity an imposing 11% last year -and none has ever gone on strike. The kibbutz plants consequently keep prices extremely low: high school and college lab equipment is sold in the U.S. at 20% below the price charged by American companies, and plastic flushing systems for toilets are sold in Africa at 15% less than competitive brands. Most of their output is sold to the Israeli government or large private firms, but the bargain prices...
...primary that day had injected a feeble note of optimism in the proceedings, but it was still clear that the activist mood was departing as quickly as it had come. And when the black students filed out of Mass Hall two days later, the return to term-papers and lab assignments was virtually complete...
Running perpendicular to the lab wing is the office wing, which looks like an immense stairway. The top step--the one where the office wing meets the lab wing--is nine stories high. The bottom step, closest to the Yard, is only two stories high...
OTHER PARTS of the Science Center are also suffering from insufficient funding, but none of these appears to be crucial right now. An enormous basement which was to have been used as a lab for teaching science instruction techniques will be left empty. A small astronomical observatory on the top floor of the office wing will be left unfinished...
...primary that day had injected a feeble note of optimism in the proceedings, but it was still clear that the activist mood was departing as quickly as it had come. And when the black students filed out of Mass Hall two days later, the return to term-papers and lab assignments was virtually complete...