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...sector of society, including industry, culture and the arts, public health and the military. Peking's Capital Iron and Steel Complex now gives bonuses to its 70,000 workers when they meet specific requirements. By 1985, according to the government, 72,000 hotels, restaurants, bathhouses and barbershops will switch to the new system. The businesses will pay taxes to the government. Anything earned above the taxes will be shared among employees or reinvested...
...possible deadlock was the farthest thing from the Crimson minds, though, when with 12 minutes remaining the laxwomen hold on 11-8 lead. Crucial turnovers caused the game's momentum to switch to Temple, which needed some last-second heroics to tie the game. Jan Gowan's goal with just four seconds remaining left the Crimson crushed, and holders of a 3-1-1 record...
...work a telephone. If the tardy taxpayer does not answer, the computer will hang up and call again in half an hour. It will continue this all day, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, and also Saturday mornings. When the delinquent finally answers, the computer will switch the call to a Treasury agent, and at the same time the agent's video screen will light up with all the details of the taxpayer's derelictions. "This will drastically increase the number of accounts that a revenue agent can contact," says Dean Morrow, acting assistant...
Since drawing circles and lines is not really "writing," third-graders must be taught writing all over again. Schools switch to one of several cursive systems based on the fanciful scripts taught elementary the U.S. in the 18th and writing. centuries, in-the Spencerian style vigorously promoted in the mid-1800s by Platt Rogers Spencer, a scribe and teacher. All these cursive systems, of which the most familiar is probably the variation devised by another teacher, Austin Palmer, are full of accident-prone loops that only a 19th century copper engraver could properly master. Teachers get as discouraged as students...
...during Pusey's administration that the students began to use more militant means to achieve their ends. In 1961, for example, Pusey drew heavy criticism for his decision to have all University diplomas printed in English--a switch from the traditional Latin. The controversy culminated in a huge student protest, in which several hundred students surrounded 17 Quincy St. They held signs that read "Latin, si, Pusey, no," and Pusey finally came out and addressed them in Latin. Few of the protesters understood, driving home the point that no one could understand what Harvard diplomas said either...