Word: queue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Undergraduates registering in Memorial Hall today will queue up to have the stripe on their bursars cards validated with a magnetic code, R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the office of fiscal services, said last week...
Jumping the Queue. Social Services Minister Barbara Castle, whose department is in charge of the National Health Service, has shown an inflexibility that has worsened the present impasse, but the background of the crisis is complex. Constantly rising demands for care have all but overwhelmed NHS and raised its costs to $8.2 billion. This has forced some people to wait months, or in some cases years, for routine treatments like hernia repair and other elective operations. For years the nation's 15,000 junior hospital doctors have put up with the long hours (more than 80 a week...
...taking specific measures to diminish the impact of unemployment, particularly as regards juveniles and school leavers, and should be shortly announcing special help in the form of employment subsidies in hard-hit areas to help employers to keep on labor who would otherwise be joining the dole queue. That will be cheaper, in fact, to the government than paying dole, as well as socially much more desirable...
...morning of Aug. 6, 1945, Dr. Fumio Shigeto was waiting in line for a trolley to take him to Hiroshima's Red Cross Hospital. A nurse he knew waved to him, inviting him to join her near the front of the queue. Not wanting to push ahead of the people in front of him, Shigeto declined the offer. At that moment there was a blinding flash, followed by a deafening boom. Most of the people in the line were hurled to the ground, burned and bleeding. Shigeto, who was sheltered by the corner of a reinforced-concrete building, survived...
...kind of nostalgic calendar of the U.S. itself. Except that it is wittier, Same Time, Next Year is a redo of The Fourposter. It is the kind of theatrical fare that fiftyish middle-class marrieds have been starved for on Broadway in recent seasons, and they are likely to queue up for tickets in avid droves...