Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Notre Dame football game in South Bend, Ind. Signal's purchase price figures to be worth about $45 per share of Allis-Chalmers' common (last week's closing: $38.75), considerably less than the $55-$60 estimate that Ling put on his final offer. That could mean trouble for Allis-Chalmers, which has already been hit with a stockholders' suit challenging the rejection of Ling's offer; one party that expressed displeasure with the Signal get-together was Kleiner, Bell & Co., a Beverly Hills, Calif., brokerage firm believed to hold some 14% of Allis-Chalmers...
This is a novel that anyone who was in Austria during the war or just after it could have jotted down from ordinary conversation and observation. It captures the slow fading of Austria's old escapist, professional charm before Nazi reality. It details the deportations, the mean spying for the Nazis by willing people of all classes, the fear of speaking openly, the people carted off for no known reason. Through the use of rather contrived plot coincidences, Author Gainham keeps her selected characters in view at all times, or at least until the SS and finally the Russians...
This does not mean that the 24-man admissions committee--composed of staff and a varying number of Faculty--has only to rate its 7000 applicants on "personality," and then simply accept the 1400 or so with the highest ratings; for example, no student will be accepted unless the committee believes he can at least get C's here. But it does mean that an outsider, given only the computer data and asked to guess which applicants the committee will accept, will come close if he chooses those with the highest personal ratings, tossing in about 100 students...
Simply because DeGuglielmo has labelled Avatar obsecene does not mean that a court would do the same. It is not DeGuglielmo's job, as an administrator, to label Avatar one thing or another; that is the court's prerogative, and when he usurps it he is acting unconstitutionally...
...describes his style as rationalistic. "I abhor the artistic, intuitive approach," he says. What do the two different approaches mean to the non-architect...