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...other newcomer to the University financial scene is Stephen B. Farber '63, assistant to President Bok. Last March the Austin Committee recommended that a "fact-finder" be empowered to "sift suggestions from all members of the University with respect to what might be termed the non-financial aspects of the University's role as investor" and then report to the Corporation...
...South Viet Nam last week had in many cases to make choices that might have left a Univac smoking. No fewer than 1,297 candidates were vying for 159 seats in the often rambunctious Lower House of the National Assembly. In one Saigon district, for example, voters had to sift through a sheaf of 81 ballots, each printed with a candidate's photograph and symbol, and choose five to seal in a little brown envelope, which then was dropped in a ballot box. In a number of areas, moreover, voters who wanted to register antigovernment sentiments found that balloting...
...National Archives and Records Service like its far more modest counterparts, the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, N.Y., the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kans. Actually it is a reductio ad absurdum of the presidential library system. No doubt historians will in time sift its unwieldy contents and make some pattern of them. Meanwhile, the building itself exists to tell history what to think. This is one of the traditional functions of monuments, but rarely has it been so heavily exploited in a democratic society. · Robert Hughes
Each morning in Boise, Idaho, as many as 50 temporary employees of the First Security Bank enter a suite of six rooms and seat themselves at tables topped with small piles of thin strips of paper. They delicately sift and poke through the piles, plucking out individual strips and pasting them on pieces of cardboard. Nobody turns on the air conditioners; the breeze might scatter the strips. The workers labor intently for six hours daily through the heat and tedium, picking and pasting like finalists in a jigsaw puzzle Olympics...
...jeans and be myself although a somewhat foggy version. But oh the pain of the subtler forms of secretarial stereotype. Wouldn't it be easier, I have often thought, had it been clear from the cutest that I was going to be eaten alive, instead of being forced to sift ambiguities of kindly but well aimed jests? Consider the following secretarial dilemmas...