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...yesterday morning's trials, 20 of the 23 Crimson entrants performed at optimum speed, and further astonished their opponents by outdoing themselves in the evening races with even better times...
...will be no moratorium on building ... there will just be more and more architecture without architects." To travel in American cities is to know what he meant; the townscape of the '70s is perfused with cost-accountant buildings that bear no trace of human imagination: three-dimensional graphs of optimum efficiency, seemingly designed by computers for insects. In the whole pattern of American building, real architecture is a minority's activity...
...Director ... continued with some account of the technique for preserving the excised ovary alive and actively developing; passed on to a consideration of optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity ... actually showed them ... how the eggs ... were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle; how ... this receptacle was immersed in a warm bouillion containing free-swimming spermatozoa...
...Department veteran, as Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, to run daily international operations. That leaves Blumenthal free to concentrate on the big-bang issues of inflation, taxes and the dollar-and have at least some chance to quit the office after the twelve-hour days that he considers the optimum for efficiency. He carefully guards his weekends as private times, and sometimes leaves on a quick vacation without revealing his destination to anyone except his secretary...
James H. Shaw, professor of Nutrition at the Dental School, supports Sweeney's argument, explaining that putting fluorine in the water is not introducing an additive, but merely readjusting existing fluorine levels to an optimum concentration...