Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with an eye towards relieving Harvard of some of its financial resources. One gentleman asked for one million dollars to collect butterflies He adds, "You're a big, strong University, you can could stand the strain of lowering one million dollars down here [Although] ropes ought creak a bit, sweat might...
...instructor. He barks angrily, and they wade into the stream, chanting, shouting and grunting in unison, praying for spiritual renewal and purification. Then they run quietly through the streets of the village, dressed only in loincloths, their heads banded in white cloth on which the characters for "love" and "sweat" are written in black...
...trainees' day begins at 6 a.m. with the banging of a giant (25-ft.) drum, which rouses them from sleep in their dormitory bunk beds; each room has eight workers from different companies. They don their all-white clothes, usually sweat shirts and sweatpants, grab brooms, and clean their quarters. They then line up for a flag raising, singing Kimigayo, the national anthem...
...finally, in 1982, the establishment of a 400-man force in three one-story beige and red-tile buildings near Apple's antiseptic headquarters in Cupertino. Couch fired up the workers with what he calls the "Outward Bound school of business," stressing the virtues of originality and sweat. New workers were employed as pristine users, and psychologists tested new features for what the industry calls "user friendliness." The results now appear to be very friendly. Apple says its studies show that a novice can learn to operate Lisa in 20 to 40 min., as opposed...
...have my own Reading Period anxieties," confesses Thomas A. Dingman '67, assistant dean of the College and Leverett House senior tutor. "I always begin to dream about being unprepared for an exam. I wake up in a cold sweat. And I haven't been a student for a number of years--I graduated...