Word: repairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which records the family's listening and viewing activity. When a spool of film is replaced (either weekly or every other week, according to Nielsen's need for speed), the Audimeter rewards its keeper by ejecting two quarters (Nielsen also pays half the family's TV repair bill). The film is mailed to headquarters in Chicago, where its coded streaks and dots show what channels the set was tuned to, when, and for how long. By correlating this information with program schedules, Nielsen's tabulators and a clacking IBM 1410 computer crank out the ratings that...
...Negotiations for free elections to unify the country (which is what Vietamese of all complexions say they ultimately want) might be a good step. The Geneva Treaty which ended the Indo-Chinese War stipulated that such elections be held in 1956; by supporting the treaty now, the U.S. might repair much of the damage of its past violations...
...that Philanthropist Gouverneur Morris II built the church in memory of his mother and that Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first Gouverneur Morris, who drafted the Constitution, are buried there. Nowadays no one notices the plaque, and the limestone structure is in bad repair. Once fashionable and famous, St. Ann's parish is today in the heart of one of the city's toughest neighborhoods, populated by 60,000 low-income whites, Puerto Ricans, Negroes and West Indians. In other words, St. Ann's has become a typical Episcopal Church...
...open the gates," he recalls. "At first, the kids came in to see what they could wreck. Windows were broken, but it was more important for us to establish identification with these kids than to worry about the windows." The strategy worked; today neighborhood youths volunteer to help repair the church...
...Brandeis student council has condemned the ink splattering and writing of obscenities. "If the students responsible are not found," a spokesman declared, "then the council will pay to repair the damages...