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Each night, members of the group perform a candle lighting ceremony in the dining hall, and post a Swahili motto commemorating one of seven principles, such as "unity," "faith" and "self-determination" on a mammoth sign on the dining room wall...
...this state-supported urban institution with 19,150 students on two campuses in Richmond, Va. School created in 1968 merger of a medical college and professional institute. New president must be vigorous, politically sensitive manager with stable family life. Need not be outstanding scholar. Mammoth task will include raising academic standards, increasing the budget (currently $ 134 million) and improving the university's image. $50,300 base salary plus extras. Mansion with help; life insurance. Apply Virginia Commonwealth University...
...energy legislation, which is being gutted in the Senate. It also reflected his genuine fear-and that of advisers like Energy Secretary James Schlesinger-that unless Congress acts soon to reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil, the inevitable consequences will be oil and gas shortages and a further mammoth, inflationary deficit in the U.S. balance of trade. The nation is now spending an appalling $45 billion a year to import oil, and the estimated trade deficit for this year is as high as $25 billion, compared with $5.9 billion last year...
Opposing waves of mammoth tanks maneuvered for position on Bavaria's rain-drenched farm lands. Mechanized units of infantrymen clattered through gingerbread villages, clashing for control of strategic bridges and road junctions. Overhead, missile-bearing Cobra helicopters and F-4 Phantom jets thundered across the skies, "firing" at one another and at targets on the ground...
MacDonald left to posterity a course of unkempt terrain, steep-faced bunkers, and mammoth greens that looks like a playground for some bygone race of giants...