Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have risen to large occasions - the McCarthy hearings, assassinations, moon shots. Perhaps a prefigurement can be seen in the radio broadcasts of the Senate's Panama Canal debates. The broadcast of the debates has raised the tone and self-awareness of the speakers. If the networks established a pool system and followed certain rules of discretion laid down by the House management, the system would surely produce something better than the somewhat stolid and formal self-portrait that O'Neill suggests...
...officials honest, below them, says a Tanzanian, "corruption has become institutionalized." Explains a resident of Dar es Salaam: "You can't get anything done without paying - whether a permit for a plot of land or an import license. I even have to bribe to get my cess pool emptied...
...area, which runs between two lodges. He turned to Jim and handed him his parka. "Watch this," he said, and took off down the slope. He made a few quick turns, then headed for a bump, took a huge jump, and landed in the middle of a lodge swimming pool, which was unoccupied. He swam around the pool collecting his equipment, which came off when he hit the water, climbed out, put his skis back on, zipped down the mountain to the lodge where they were all staying, and took a hot shower...
...Institute also administers summer grants for thesis-related research in the government sector to eligible juniors. McKey said that 20 students received grants last year out of an applicant pool of 65. He added that because of a budget cut this year the number of grants should be approximately...
...that Harvard's aqua-supermen dunked the Tigers, 58-55, earlier this season, Princeton--which has won the championship meet for the last five years in a row--is the decided favorite. You can forget the other ten or 15 teams that will be splashing around Brown's classy pool this weekend. This is a two-team showdown: Hackett's Heroes vs. the Incredible Orange Machine...