Word: skips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dice, advances or reverses occur when the would-be oil potentate lands on the space marked "Telex," where a message may order him to return to the Geneva Airport-equivalent to Monopoly's "Go" position-notify him of a crippling tanker strike or tell him to skip ahead to be photographed for a TIME cover...
...current budget, the figure has swelled to $800 million. Another tactic is to raid the "Rainy Day fund," which is supposed to be maintained for an emergency. Instead of contributing to the fund as required by law, New York has obtained waivers from the city council permitting it to skip payments for the past seven years. As a result, the fund is almost drained. Still another stratagem is to push certain expenses into next year's budget and pull next year's revenues into the current budget-all by a stroke of a dexterous pen. To help balance...
Under this plan, which sparked considerable controversy in 1973, departments are permitted to accept lower-ranked students who do not need financial aid and to skip over higher-ranked needy students...
...tense at home in Park Ridge, Ill. Mother would ask daughter if she would like help setting her hair, and Black wondered, "Why is she doing this? Is she trying to smother me? Destroy me?" Scientology has since allayed such fears, soothed her about her recent divorce from Actor Skip Burton, and given her some new, if hardly original, insight: "He wasn't the right...
...Read With a Plan. Don't read in advance, unless it's the professor's book--then you can skip the lectures. In a pinch, book reviews can be even more rewarding than books, and introductions more important than conclusions. Scanning appropriate pages of Langer's Encyclopedia of World History guarantees your spot on the dean's list...