Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Within the pages of the New Republic and the New Yorker, Wilson presented subjects as diverse as poetry and symbolism, historiography and Marxism, the literature of the American Civil War and the Dead Sea Scrolls. "There is a serious profession of journalism," Wilson insisted. "You have to learn to load solid matter into notices of ephemeral happenings; you have to develop a resourcefulness at pursuing a line of thought through pieces on miscellaneous and more or less fortuitious subjects...
EVEN if Ryan had not been shouldering Nelson's work load the first semester, he would still have been busy beyond the call of duty. In addition to being president of HSA, Ryan was also president of the College Bartenders Service in his home town, Garden City, N.Y. The business folded after the Christmas season, and Ryan insists that he spent no more than 30 hours on the College Bartending Service since its inception. He refused to say when it began...
...already spent $122,500. But when Philadelphia's law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo heard that the casting and shipping would come to another $177,000, the news turned him into an instant art critic. "Government of the People," said Rizzo, "looks like some plasterer dropped a load of plaster. The art people are out to rape this city." But when art lovers began to ante up private contributions, Rizzo relented. If they pay for Government's bills, he said, "we'll find a spot...
...giving her approval, she puts an applicant through "stress testing"-exercising while hooked up to an electrocardiograph. "It simply isn't enough to run an electrocardiogram on a heart at rest," says she. "We have to road-test it to see how well it performs under a work load." In this examination the patient pedals a bicycle-like device against increasing resistance. Meanwhile, his oxygen consumption is being measured, and the electrocardiograph is tracing heart reaction. The test continues until the heart reaches 85% of its maximum rate or until the patient-experiences some distress. The procedure allows Zohman...
...Limited Load. Concorde's small payload over the North Atlantic is the main reason for the airlines' reluctance. Geoffrey Knight, Chairman of British Aircraft Corp.'s commercial division, says that the Concorde will be able to carry at least 100 passengers from Paris to New York in 3 hr. 40 min. But that number assumes a mixture of men, women and children, weighing on average only 200 Ibs. with baggage-a total of 20,000 Ibs. The Concorde, however, is likely to be a businessmen's jet, since they will be among the few people willing...