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...Although some consider the search a minor nuisance not worth the trouble to repeal, small comforts can greatly increase the benefit students reap. The relatively minor renovation of the fifth floor of Lamont transformed it from a barren studying-Siberia deserted by students to a flourishing study space...
...traces of blood in stool. Indeed, after Reagan was placed on a restricted diet, the blood traces disappeared. Still, to be on the safe side, the President's doctors decided to remove the polyp, asked Reagan to pick the earliest convenient time, and scheduled what was to be a minor operation on July...
...instructors last year. Sunbelt schools are recruiting in northern states, where in many cases declining pupil populations have prevented a teacher shortage. The city of Modesto, Calif., this spring set up eleven recruiting centers in hotels from Massachusetts to Washington State. Georgia, although its shortage is still minor, has imported math and science teachers from West Germany. The Houston independent school district foraged all spring for 500 teachers as far north as Vancouver, only to discover that more than 100 new vacancies had opened while the bountymen were out hunting. In fact, Houston recruiters are even looking to Ireland, which...
File cabinets. Metal desks. Brass fire nozzles worth $85 each. A $5,000 oscilloscope. All were dumped into the ocean from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk because its sailors were too lazy to return the items to the vessel's storerooms or to do the needed minor repair work...
...rate prices, OPEC's 13 members[*] tried desperately to halt the price slide. "Market stability is at the crossroads," admitted Subroto, Indonesia's Oil Minister and the current president of OPEC, at the start of the session. Yet the most that the ministers could agree on was minor adjustments like lowering OPEC's price for the heaviest grade of Saudi crude by a token 50?...