Word: munched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June 22 deadline, Lewis offered a $40 million package of improvements. It included a 10% pay hike for controllers who also act as instructors, an increase in the pay differential for nighttime work to 20%, from the present 10%, and a guaranteed 30-min. lunch period (controllers often munch sandwiches at their scopes when there is too much traffic for a break). Poli found the package insultingly stingy...
...talked to your lover lately and whether you have five bucks to get a beer. On some days, sociobiology can go to hell, and you end up being a regular State Farm kind of guy. These are the days when you fantasize about being an artist (even Munch and Poe wanted to tell it to somebody) or dream about Mitterand, solidarity and the Spanish Civil War. Other days you end up tipping ten percent and thinking about law school in a fit of unmollified greed. These are the days when you're no sucker. Us against Them is really...
...Friedrich's paintings, it is soaked in allegory-the moon representing Christ, the ships serving as emblems of the voyage of life, and so on-but the recent revival of Friedrich's reputation has more to do with his ancestral relationship to more modern artists: to Edvard Munch, in particular, and Mark Rothko, whose rectangular "landscape" forms and transcendentalist pessimism now seem to preserve, with striking intensity, the romantic desire for that "original view of the infinite...
Several scenes stick out: The sorry-eyed children reluctantly munch on their morning bagels and milk: the sobering footage of World War I's devistation and of its wounded living in the pogroms: the spectacular sights of the bustling backdrop of the prosperous cities, the panorama of Pilsudski's funeral, and the sweeping shots of synagogues...
...best place to observe the Ed School's student atmosphere is at the school cafe's daily happy hour. Under dimmed lights, 40 to 50 students munch pretzels and drink inexpensive wine. The happy hour also provides a forum for students to discuss informally some of the questions they have about the direction of the school and their role in it. While some of the students believe the school's focus is ambiguous, others are completely satisfied with its purpose...