Word: rundowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peace Corps' latest statistical rundown shows that 361 Volunteers from Harvard--including 183 now serving overseas--have been selected for Peace Corps assignments...
...They centered on rising student impatience with Costa's failure to deliver on his inaugural promises of a year ago and ease Brazil's staggering problems of education. Despite assurances that he would "multiply the opportunities of education for all," the country's 41 universities remain rundown, ill-equipped and grossly understaffed; for lack of space, two qualified university applicants must be turned away for every one accepted. Costa is also spending only 7.7% of the national budget on education v. 21% on the armed forces. Though order appeared to be restored at week...
...tired and a bit rundown...
...their struggle to rise above a rundown economy, Britain's major industrial companies have moved into a flurry of mergers. Since last summer, consolidations have created Europe's largest steel company, second-largest auto producer and third-largest electrical-equipment manufacturer. Now the trend has spread into the once staid realm of banking. In the largest bank merger in Britain's history, Westminster Bank, the country's fourth largest (deposits: $4.2 billion), has just agreed to join forces with the fifth-largest, National Provincial Bank (deposits: $4.1 billion...
Presidential reports to the Overseers have never been a vehicle for social criticism, nor even for incisive commentary on the affairs of the University. Included, usually, are a laborious compendium of the University's financial proceedings, a superficial rundown of activities in the college and the various graduate schools--with particular attention given to social clubs and athletic teams--and an obituary column for University notables. They have been dull, unenlightening, but most of all, uncontroversial...