Word: overlapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough to consider the destructiveness of the B-52s alone. A B-52 flies at an altitude of 30,000 feet and drops bombs which cover a rectangle a mile and a half long and a half mile wide with flames and flying steel fragments. If there is no overlap, 60 B-52s can thus destroy an area of about 25 square miles in a single mission. The pilots have no idea of what is in their assigned target areas when they bomb them, nor do the people on the ground hear or see the planes coming after them...
Each Spring, after admissions committees have made their decisions, representatives from the Ivy League gather at "overlap meetings" to discuss candidates accepted at more than one of the schools. The colleges try to agree on the total amount of aid each applicant needs, L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, said yesterday...
...that since the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911, no company can use the name Standard nationally-not even the name Esso, which comes from S.O. Jersey Standard used Esso in the East, Humble in Ohio and Enco elsewhere. With the Exxon name the company can eliminate wasteful overlap in production and promotion costs...
Under normal circumstances, the extension of Bernstein's residence period into the next academic year would overlap with his successor's tenure. But the Committee on the Charles E. Norton Professor of Poetry was not planning to appoint anyone to the chair next year anyway for financial reasons, according to Harry Levin '33, chairman of the Committee...
...commissions serve as a check on each other, since their supervisory and investigating duties overlap. But the new ICCS has some powers that the former and unlamented International Control Commission did not. It can, for instance, investigate truce violations on its own, without waiting for a complaint from either side. The key factor, of course, is whether the four parties are willing to cooperate. So far the Poles and the Canadians agree that the new commission is graced with a cooperative spirit absent from...