Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officially, Bowles was denied tenure because his academic work was simply not up to snuff. Not up to the snuff required by the three faculty members who do consulting work for Data Resources, Inc., a consulting firm; not up to the snuff required by Richard E. Caves, Stone Professor of International Trade, who has often declined to comment publicly on Department decisions; and not up to the snuff required by Richard A. Musgrave, Burbank Professor of Political Economy, who believes academic decisions are sacrosanct and should not be subject to the democratic processes of student review...
...excuse of all this male togetherness is a learned paper and it is taken seriously at least by the speaker who is in position of producing up to snuff. Respectably enough drinks and copious eating usually precede the presentation nowadays. But in two of the clubs said to be modeled on English tradition high tea and all that the paper comes before the ultimate pleasure the business being out of the way to allow for serious matters. I discovered that one of these clubs came to this sensible design late in its annuals, when on one occasion the speaker, happily...
Through it all, there weaves a plot of sorts. Will the English land secret shipment of snuff on Rhett O'Ricks dock? Will Rhett stay sober enough to that Miss Glory Morning can marry him? Will Johnny Profane remain true to Chaste DeBluesaway despite her miniscule breasts? Or will her father the Mayor foreclose the Wrongway Inn instead? Not quite the ideological origins of the American Revolution, to be sure...
...York. It is the nation's largest city (10 million people) and the busiest port in the Communist world, with China's most extensive industry and, consequently, its thickest smog. It also has one of China's largest slums. The hunger and diseases that used to snuff out the lives of thousands of infants annually during the 1930s have gone. But so have the sin and the aura of intrigue and the giddy opulence. The once-imposing semicircle of banks and commercial houses along the Hwang Pu River only dimly reflects the day when Western tycoons lounged...
Libby, meanwhile, is doing its best to snuff out the odor. It has used ammonium nitrate and other chemicals in attempts to neutralize the gases that cause the offensive beet smell. Enzymes and aerators have been put to work to help reduce the anaerobic bacteria that produce the gas. Still, the smells persist. Moans Libby Plant Manager Kenneth Schessler: "We get blamed even when there's three feet of ice on the lagoons...