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...shorten the four years required for a Master's degree, the School will now admit qualified students in exceptional cases, either at the end of three years of college training or with advanced standing...
...write-off, might be liberalized, i.e., instead of getting a write-off on, say, 60% of a new installation, the producer would be allowed a full 100%. Instead of writing off the cost in five years, he might be allowed to do it in two or three to shorten the risk that new developments might make his plant obsolete. For such items as titanium, which alone may mean air supremacy for the nation with a plentiful supply, the Government may have to go much further and, as Air Force Secretary Talbott has suggested, subsidize them with loans, fast write-offs...
...March, and with your musket carry your rest! Unshoulder your musket! Poise your musket! Join your rest to your musket! Take forth your Match! Blow off your coal! Cock your match! Try your match! Guard, blow, and open your priming-pan! Charge your musket! Draw forth your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Put in your bullet and ram home! Present! Give fire! Dismount your musket! Uncock your match! Return your match! Clear your pan! Prime your pan! Shut your pan! Cast off your loose powder! Blow off your loose powder! Cast about your musket! Trail your rest! Open your...
...Meat can shorten a man's life, warned Health Minister Ramon Carrillo last week in a speech to 4,000 fellow Argentines. With evangelistic fervor, Carrillo urged them to eat less meat and more vegetables, and to persuade other citizens of the Republic of Beef to do the same. The occasion was a government-sponsored conference on "Rational Eating." Officially, its purpose was to improve Argentines' health by educating them to "modify negative eating habits"; actually, the conference was another effort to relieve Argentina's beef shortage...
Several calendar changes, results of the University's attempt to shorten the school year and moye graduation up one week, will be tried this year, the new course catalogue indicates...