Word: sheet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school board near Lincoln, Neb., considered leaving the program, partly out of disgust with the paperwork involved. Cafeteria managers must follow the Agriculture Department's 111-page guide for school food service, and each day someone must fill out an 18-column sheet listing all financial details of every meal served and sold. The board decided to stick with the program, because without subsidies its schools would probably have had to stop serving its 98 free and 102 reduced-price meals each day. Though the students who eat those meals are a minor fraction of the district...
...been discussed at enough length (and perhaps with enough consideration of its dubious morality) that Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, had been given the final descision. Go ahead, he said, according to department spokesman David Rosen. Moreover, at the tenant meeting, a sign-up sheet was passed around, a single piece of yellow lined paper torn from a legal pad. The HTU, which had in mind projects such as a flea market, asked all in attendance to put down their names. And everyone did, everyone except Erickson. He put down a name, but it wasn...
...astonishing encounter has considerably shortened Arshad's culture gap. "I was looking at a sign-up sheet for co-ed soft-ball, he remembers, "and saw 'A. Zakaria' written in. So I thought, 'What is this, some kind of joke,' because I hadn't signed up for co-ed softball. But then I looked in the face-book, and there was a picture of Aamir Zakaria. I finally met him at the ice-cream bash--It turns out that he's my first cousin. I never knew he was coming to Harvard--I'd never even...
Buckley stuck with the Pats for more than a month. Still, getting cut hurt. "In the Ivies, you see maybe 15 defensive looks. The New England coaching staff gave me a sheet with 48 defensive alignments to memorize. It was an awful lot for a rookie to absorb...
...latest entry: You Can Do the Cube (Penguin; $1.95) by Patrick Bossert, 13, a London schoolboy who discovered the cube only this spring during a family ski vacation in Switzerland. Within five days he had mastered the monster, and later began selling his schoolmates a four-page, mimeographed tip sheet for 45?. An alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving the cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob...