Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopeful sign last week in the Middle East was the return to Cairo of the wives and children of Soviet personnel stationed in Egypt. It was their evacuation in early October that presaged the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. Now, at least, it seems that the Russians have enough faith in the ceasefire to plan the reopening of the Soviet school in Cairo at the start of next year...
...estimates, subject to much wider swings. Considering that we are dealing with more than 20 major faculty and service department budgets and a host of smaller ones, and that each unit operates with relative autonomy within its own budget, such a difference is a composite achievement, not a sign of financial maneuvering...
Currently each student's Faculty adviser is required to sign his advisee's application and to help him develop a plan for the project. The senior tutor approves the student's application and grades the project...
Under the new legislation, the senior tutor must sign the petition for an independent work project, but the decision whether or not to grant credit or no-credit to the student will be left to the Faculty adviser...
...catchword for the show is chaos. The Who tumble up the stairs and onto the stage--unlit, save for a blinking reproduction of a Civil Defense fallout shelter sign. No ceremony, no circumstance, no introduction. There are four songs to warm up, Quadrophenia, then three more songs. The warm-ups are a smattering of history. And they are run off like copies--"Can't Explain," "Summertime Blues," "My Wife," and "My Generation." Their essence is a fifteen second repetition of those windmill chords Townshend has made famous. They succeed like calisthenics--Daltry twirls his mike, Townshend does his splits, Moon...