Word: sections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, most teaching fellows say that the time they must spend preparing for sections each week can get frustrating. "If you've never taught in the course before, then you could spend one or two whole days preparing for a weekly section, and that's a lot of time," says Chris Brown, a resident history tutor in Eliot House...
...graduate students who make it possible for 800-plus students to enroll in courses like Foreign Cultures 48, "The Cultural Revolution." And Social Analysis 10, "The Principles of Economics," could not be taught almost entirely in small groups without the course's more than 30 graduate student section leaders. Although teaching can take up a huge chunk of their time, graduate students take on courses because they enjoy interacting with undergraduates--and they need the money...
Taylor had worked for First Chicago for eight years, and was employed in its wire-transfer section, which dispatches multimillion-dollar sums around the world via computers and phone lines. The bank's biggest customers routinely call this department to transfer funds, often paying money directly into suppliers' accounts. As at most banks, transfers require that a First Chicago employee call back another executive at the customer's offices to reconfirm the order, using various code numbers. All such calls are automatically taped. Taylor had access to the codes and knew the names of the appropriate executives at various corporations...
...complicated by the course of events. We began the week with a different cover story in mind, but were struck by the sudden upsurge of debate over the highly emotional issue of whether drugs should be legalized. On Thursday we switched to the story that appears in the Nation section. It was reported by all our domestic bureaus and written by Senior Writer George Church. Accompanying the main story are examinations of the military's new role in the war on drugs and the Administration's "zero tolerance" campaign against drug consumers...
...pages away in the World section is Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott's inside account of how, after years of feints and frustrations, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have just about reached a strategic-arms-reduction agreement, an achievement that will be at the center of next week's Moscow summit. It is a tough subject, but one worth a few minutes' extra attention, and we don't think anyone can tell it better than Talbott, the author of two books on arms control. Not far beyond that story comes Profile, a department we introduced six months...