Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late Will Durant, the Book-of-the-Month Club's ubiquitous historian, once observed that "no man who is in a hurry is quite civilized." Time bestows value because objects reflect the hours they absorb: the hand-carved table, the handwritten letter, every piece of fine craftsmanship, every grace note. But now we have reached the stage at which not only are the luxuries of time disappearing -- for reading meaty novels, baking from scratch, learning fugues, traveling by sea rather than air, or by foot rather than wheel -- but the necessities of time are also out of reach. Family time...
...response, the Swiss government has promised to draft tough anti- laundering legislation by mid-May. Last week the federal banking commission announced that it will introduce stiff regulations on bank-note trading to prevent drug traffickers and other criminals from using the country's famed secret bank accounts. The commission also published a 28-page report that faulted Credit Suisse, which handled the bulk of the money in the billion- dollar scheme, for inadequately supervising its accounts...
...nine women and three men judging North began deliberating at 9:40 a.m. and soon relayed requests to the judge on notes. They asked for copies of Gesell's instructions, which took more than two hours to read in court, note pads, paper clips and pencils...
...Crimson on Thursday, April 13. ("Blind Student Rejects Offer by Ad Board for Retest.") First, at the time that the article appeared, I had not yet responded to the Ad Board's offer. Thus The Crimson's headline was both premature and inaccurate. Since April 13, I may note, I have written to the Ad Board accepting their offer to let me retake my Math 1b make-up final examination...
Many scientists express grave concern over the hype they say the press has inserted into the fusion discoveries. Many note the wild tales of levitating trains that circulated in the popular press when high-temperature superconductors were discovered two years...