Word: paged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...payroll distribution system and related internal controls was not in compliance with federal regulations," the 60-page audit states, adding, "and the system that was used and currently in use does not provide reasonable assurance that direct costs for the personal services of professorial and other professional staff were either proper or reasonable...
...everyone was talking about the great "world food crisis." A Crimson opinion page that year featured an article headlined "World Food Crisis: Political Maneuvers Keep Food From Starving Millions." Conferences were held. Books were written about the "millions" from underdeveloped countries scrambling to board the only "lifeboat"--America and Europe--and we were warned we would have to be ruthless...
...food had clearly lost the cataclysmic character it had only four years ago. Obviously, today, if we read in our morning Crimson that "Political Maneuvers Keep Food From Starving Millions" we would either wonder what happened in "the world" since we went to bed, or else turn the page as bored "informed" readers who had already read enough about the not-so-current issue. My prediction is that when there is another coincidence of visible large scale famine in less developed societies and sudden food supply threats in developed ones, the issue of food will again seem to ssume...
...Chairman" is fine, but ''Chairperson" isn't, according to one of the language's most respected arbiters, the Oxford University Press, whose new 770-page paperback dictionary states crisply; "The word chairman may be used of persons of either...
...courted so long. The source of this attention was a cache of erotic stories she had written, for cash, in the early 1940s; her patron was an anonymous collector who told her to "leave out the poetry and descriptions of anything but sex" and paid her a dollar a page. Published posthumously under the title Delta of Venus, these stories climbed the bestseller charts in mid-1977 and settled there for more than six months. Nearly a million paperback copies of the original have been sent out into the world...