Word: present
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hind becomes the almost ludicrous pursuer of a lost cause whose tangled effects obfuscate his thinking. Clues ravel in his memory until the past becomes present and all of life is poured into one densely occupied moment. "Hooked with a wood into the forest, it will lead you well beyond the pier," states one clue. Does it refer to the golf course owned by Hind's friend Ashley Sill, where one may hook the ball into the trees? Or does it mean the huge fishhook stuck in the ironwood outside the Laurel home, from where Hershey was taken...
Raftery called the present helper category "an inequitable arrangement keeping people in a kind of subservient position without any hope of moving forward...
Raftery said that the new agreement includes the present helpers for the first time as part of a collective bargaining agreement...
However, the computer is still in its rudimentary stages of development, and while both men believe cybernetic astrology is "the order of the future," neither considers the computer in its present form equal to its human counterparts in judgment or synthesizing power. Both men are strongly committed to astrology. Damaska radiated enthusiasm from his bright blue eyes and his wiry brown hair that effervesced from his head. He wore agray-brown suit, a blue-and-green. striped-and-flowered tie, and a full beard. Lutin wore a pink shirt and a collarless blue sports jacket. An ascot was tied around...
...tentative agreement to eliminate the helper category and promote all present helpers to apprentices with a pay raise of 10 cents was reached last Friday between Harvard and the representatives of the five unions in the Maintenance and Engineering Department, according to a union spokesman...