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...They overlap," he said, adding that he had yet to compose his remarks.Honorary Degree Recipients and dignitaries on the steps of Widener Library, Commencement Day, June 5, 1947. Front row, left to right: LAIRD BELL '94. Gov. ROBERT F. BRADFORD '23, R. KEITH KANE '22. Pres JAMES B. CONANT '14, honorary degree recipients GEORGE C. MARSHALL, OMAR N. BRADLEY, former Sen. JAMES W. WADSWORTH, J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER '26, I.A. RICHARDS, and T.S. ELIOT...
...letters large enough for Dr. Seuss captions. And it is written, according to Yao, "like a good legal memorandum..lean, basic, and in plain English" I don't know about the "legal memorandum" stuff, but Yao isn't kidding about the plain English. A sample: "Misspellings and typos often overlap. It is sometimes hard to tell if we have a typo or a misspellings. Typos and misspellings can be very distracting and irritation...
...Carnegie President Ernest Boyer, the corporate classroom has quietly become "a kind of third leg of the education system in the U.S." And it is one of the strongest forces for continuing adult education. Courses range from remedial English to nuclear engineering. Some subjects, such as language and accounting, overlap those in the nation's traditional schools. Others compensate for gaps in the conventional curriculum. General Electric's manager of management education, James Baughman, for one, says, "There is vast illiteracy on business-school faculties" in both the mechanics of advanced technology and its management implications. Says a Texas Instruments...
...multiple light sources, off-stage voices, incidental music, and those moments when Hamm and Clov overlap lines to create unintelligible gibberish all distract from the finely honed intensity of the play. Philip Glass's excellent score only works when the thundering drums and manic melody suddenly halt in the deathly silence that opens the show...
...advertising rate is lower than it would be if space were bought in one publication at a time, the advertiser reaches a broader audience with similar interests, and the publisher is able to use the range of his titles to increase ad pages across the board. Some areas of overlap at CBS resulted from the acquisition. Ziffs Cycle and CBS's Cycle World, for instance, are the two leading motorcycle magazines; Ziffs Car and Driver appeals to many of the same readers as CBS's Road & Track; Ziffs Stereo Review and CBS's Audio are rivals...