Word: standards
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...probabilities low. For example, even if a toxin-producing strain could survive only very briefly in the gut, a large enough dose might meanwhile cause disease. Hence a major benefit from the current discussion could be the requirement that those working in this area learn and use the standard techniques of medical microbiology, at least until we have acquired much more experience...
...planners, working out of an aging, two-story World War II building, professed confidence that the capital would not be overrun by huge crowds, although the six Inauguration Night parties would, as usual, offer little room for dancing. Nonetheless, major hotels are requiring four-day minimum stays at the standard $50 to $60 per day for two people. Those wanting limousines can get them for up to $250 a day but have to rent them for a minimum of five days. For the less affluent, there are free tourmobiles and shuttle buses...
...mugging are commonplace. It has been even worse lately because of New York City's empty coffers and the continued loss of factory jobs to other parts of the country. Nonetheless, Jimmy Carter's election has brought a measure of wary optimism. Explained Community Worker Eduardo Standard: "They expect him to pay more attention to jobs. Doesn't matter whether it's private jobs or public jobs, just so long as it's work. As we say here, when you're sitting on a hot furnace, there's no place...
...contained in the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, will govern allocation of the additional billions Carter wants in order to increase the number of public service jobs from 310,000 to as many as 700,000 next year. The potential loophole will be enforcement of the 15-week unemployment standard now prevailing...
...populated with a standard cast - tyrants and victims familiar to viewers of the Late Show. Its captain, "Irons" Saul Pendleton, is a bit less bestial than the average; but the man-slaughtering first mate, Otto Lassiter, is one of nature's full-rigged monsters. The mate is more than a Caliban thrown in by the author for dramatic effect; as Hayden makes clear, such men were indeed sought out by captains, and prized for their lethal efficiency...