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When Gielen--who had three steals on the night--swiped the ball from Dartmouth's John Bean and ran down the length of the court for an easy lay-up, the possibility of a win suddenly became a probability...
...October by competing groups. The winning proposal envisages two tubes, each 24 ft. in diameter, through which trains will shuttle passengers and vehicles between Cheriton and Frethun. A third tunnel, 15 ft. wide, is to provide ventilation and access for service personnel. The 31-mile- long main tubes (underwater length will be 23 miles) are to be dug through the chalk deposits 131 ft. below the Channel floor...
...programs' tuition costs vary depending on their length, but reach a high with the current $22,500 price tag for the PMD and AMP programs. The participant's sponsor company must agree to pay this fee--which covers room, board and tuition for the length of the program--in addition to paying the executive's salary during the time. The program brings in about a fifth of the school's total income and helps keep it on good terms with major corporations, which provide the bulk of the material used for the 650 case studies used in teaching each year...
Program Annual enrollment Percent Non-U.S. Students Program Length Total Graduates MBA Program 1550 15 2 years 32,000 Doctoral Programs 50 45 3 years 770 Advanced Management Program 400 35 13 weeks 11,000 International Senior Managers Program 100 80 8 weeks 1000 Program for Management Development 252 35 14 weeks 6000 Owner-President Management Program 450 20 9 weeks 800 Functional Management Program 480 25-35 2-3 weeks...
...because the book was widely read and because it adheres to the problematic first-person narrative format. Spielberg seems to realize the latter difficulty and attempts to avoid that puzzle simply by abandoning Celie's first-person narration within the first half hour of the movie. Another difficulty is length. The movie clocks in at two and a half hours, approximately the same time it takes to read the novel: Purple may well be the first example of film adaptation in which one saves time by reading the book...