Word: reverting
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...will be healthy for us if they are forced to revert to Japanese lanterns. Then, when the garden party is rained out, we can expect to throw the lanterns away, and the American manufacturer can return to the building of quality products...
Overruling changes toward more balanced musical format proposed by station manager Charles Perkins '73 and programming director Michael Gruber '72, the board voted 2-1 (with one abstention) to revert to last spring's predominately classical schedule. The move was without precedent...
...soldier days are over. Last week Pope Paul VI announced a new rite of confirmation that, among other changes, abolishes the symbolic blow on the cheek, apparently because of its military implication. The new words revert to a 4th century Byzantine formula, still used by most Eastern Catholic and Orthodox churches, that emphasizes the Holy Spirit. The bishop will simply say, "Receive the seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit," or some similar translation from the prescribed Latin: Accipe signaculum doni Spiritus Sancti. As for the holy oils, they will now be perfumed, said a Vatican spokesman...
Rusting Rigs. Thus the consternation of foreign oilmen at the government's enactment of the Hydrocarbons Reversion Act just over a month ago is hardly surprising. The measure requires that when the present concessions expire, beginning in 1983, improvements will revert to the state without compensation to the companies. Such a provision was written into the 40-year leases signed by the oil companies in the early 1940s, but the new law may force them to give up more than they expected to. By its terms, the companies could be required to give up not only concession land...
...girls and try to take over. In general, fees were lower than for comparable male groups too. For a while, it looked as if Joy of Cooking might remain one of America's thousands of unknown "party" bands. At one point, Terry and Toni were actually forced to revert to making and selling dresses to pay the rent...