Word: stampings
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...bill is a five-year renewal of higher education policy, and Harvard had worked hard to put its own stamp on the finished product. The University's Washington lobbyists worked overtime on certain points of the bill, and President Neil L. Rudenstine sent five different letters aimed at persuading alumni and Massachusetts delegates on Capitol Hill...
...result: students can feel that "they'redoing chemistry in a vacuum," Grogan says. Thethesis committee "is really a rubber stamp," afrustrating process for those interested inconstructive direction for their work...
ANNOUNCING NOTEBOOK CONTEST #2, in which readers are asked to consider the new Alfred Hitchcock postage stamp, shown here, and then design a stamp, depicting some current figure or event, that the Postal Service might reasonably issue in the year 2050. Fax your entry to (212) 467-1010, e-mail it to Letters@time.com or mail it to TIME Notebook Contest #2, Room 2321B, Time & Life Building, New York...
...masked the severity of the company's strategic woes. Last week a report issued in Detroit by Harbour & Associates, an automotive-consulting group, showed that GM lagged behind its rivals Ford and Chrysler in productivity and profitability. For example, GM takes an estimated 5.46 worker-hours to stamp out such components as fenders, doors and hoods. Ford and Chrysler take 3.42 and 2.96, respectively...
...July 8, 1998, 8:45 a.m. That's the day the waiting stopped." It sounds like James Kirk, but it's BILL KRAFT describing the moment he found out Star Trek was going to be commemorated on a stamp--an event for which Kraft has been campaigning for 12 years. "It represents such fine ideals, like nonviolent resolution of conflict where possible," says Kraft, an interlibrary-loans assistant in Minnesota. He organized petitions, got Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and some Senators to write to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. The committee rejected the idea. Then came...