Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total number of points that each team gets is computed according to a complicated system which takes into account the number of oarsmen who compete from each team in each event and the positions in which the teams' shells finish...
...whole corpus of Farina composes a rich and total mythological system. It might not be cruel to Farina to destroy it. But why must it be torn down in front...
Albert says of the show when he came to it. "It was a history of doing things the wrong way. This little theater group was operating under 'the star system.' The actors would cut each other's throats for laughs. It had a canned quality, and in that, it was almost like a TV show. The show was artistically bad, and it was boring. The actors didn't respect themselves or each other...
Riding atop a thundering Saturn 5 booster, the Apollo 12 astronauts will use a rocketry system virtually identical to the one that propelled Apollo 11. Yet their nautically named command ship, Yankee Clipper, will blaze its own distinctive path. Halfway to the moon, Apollo 12 Skipper Charles ("Pete") Conrad, 39, a veteran of two earth-girdling Gemini flights, will fire the spacecraft's service propulsion engine, jolting the ship out of its "free-return" trajectory. No longer able to loop the moon automatically and return to earth, should its engine falter, Apollo 12 could be lost forever...
...said Lenin, "periodically restores the disturbed equilibrium" of a capitalist system. That comment, which is often echoed in the Communist world today, will not help his followers explain Wall Street's reaction to the Viet Nam Moratorium. A sea of demonstrators poured into Wall and adjoining streets, crowding them so tightly that people could hardly move. Hundreds of custom-tailored bankers and brokerage-house partners joined their clerks and college students in a peace march, braving the jeers of hard-hatted steamfitters who tried to stage a counterdemonstration. The peace marchers jammed into a memorial service at Trinity Church...