Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month before they concluded that they would rather sing in bars than study all day. But somewhere down the line one of them learned basic chemistry, and they exploit their rather finite knowledge in a love song called "NACL" about two sympathetic characters, an atom of chlorine ("valence minus one"), and "handsome sodium." This is the kind of song that makes you wonder what there is to think about all day in the backwoods of Canada. This off the wall song, which basically tells of the romantic side to the chemical bond that makes salt, in a gentle-twangy country...
Eight dormitories now exceed their capacity limits. They are Adams House (minus students in Claverly) with 312 students to 300 allowed; Canaday, with 226 students to 214 allowed; Holworthy, 88 students to 83 allowed; Kirkland House, 332 students to 325 allowed; Pennypacker, 106 students to 89 allowed; Quincy House (minus students in Claverly), 414 students to 396 allowed; Weld Hall, 152 students to 139 allowed; and Wigglesworth Hall, 193 students to 188 allowed...
...into account the worker's social security benefits. A worker who retires after 25 years of continuous service will receive 60 per cent of his "high-five pay" (the highest average of the worker's base wage rate during five consecutive years in the final ten years of service) minus 80 per cent of his social security income. The theory behind this "integrated" plan is that an employee should not receive in retirement more than 100 per cent of his wages while he was working. The University tells pension plan participants that they will receive 70 to 80 per cent...
...Green. One could imagine the Lions, who nearly won this game last year, getting their Veer offense together and beating up on the Dartmouth defense. One could imagine Dartmouth falling apart at home for the first time all year. And one could imagine "Boats" having a C-minus median. Dartmouth 21, Columbia...
...discovered that the senators could also use some drill in the fundamentals. The bill misspelled explicit as explict, minimum as minmum and remediation as remediaton. Conceded Sponsor Matthew Feldman: "Sure, it's embarrassing. I never read the bill for spelling." Said Herbert: "I give the senate a B-minus...