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...agree when he enters to owe the school at least $81 and up to $300 a year -and then pay it off by hard work at varying rates of up to 35? an hour. The rates depend on quality of work, says Anderson, who uses such gauges as "being punctual on a job, following instructions without grumbling, and care of tools." Sloppy work can slash the pay to a loss per hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schools: Pay As You Work | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

...Lombardi's contract still has three years to run at Green Bay. And neither the adulation nor the covetous eyes of other clubs have changed his ways. He is still precisely punctual, expects the same of everybody else. Smart Packers keep their watches set ten minutes ahead of time-"Lombardi time.'' they call it. He still works 70 hours a week, still gets so wrapped up in his football thoughts that he sometimes misses his street on the drive home from the stadium and winds up on the highway to Milwaukee. "I don't think Vince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vinnie, Vidi, Vici | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Almost every recent concert in Cambridge has started ten to twenty minutes late, and this one was no exception. Certainly the music was worth waiting for, but even artists could be punctual...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Freshman Choral Concert | 3/17/1962 | See Source »

...Thant's proposal, even if accepted by the General Assembly and Congress, contains several difficulties. American financial buttressing would be expensive and would hardly encourage punctual contributions from other members. Both the U.N. and the United States would have to parry the accusation that the world organization was a tool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Red or the Black | 2/28/1962 | See Source »

Doctors know that the menstruating woman tends to be irritable, lethargic, depressed, violent or in rare cases, suicidal. She is less punctual and more forgetful; she may even be temporarily less intelligent. Last week, in the British Medical Journal, Dr. Katharina Dalton suggested that menstruation makes a woman more likely to be involved in an accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dangerous Days | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

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