Word: take-off
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...wonder Steve Karmen, a folksong satirist, draws guffaws in Holly-woBd- with his recording of a not very funny take-off on Gimme Dat Ol'-Time Religion...
...predawn hours one morning last week, only a few people were stirring in the provincial Yugoslav city of Skoplje, near the Greek border. In the small Hotel Macedonia, facing the railway station, Pilot Aleksander Blagojevic was dressing before going to the airport for an early take-off for Belgrade. Two German girls, tourists from Bremen who were scheduled as passengers on a Belgrade flight, had just left the hotel and were crossing the square to catch the airport...
...Western Europe already has a labor shortage, it does not need arms-making to make jobs. The real advantage of defense contracts is the research sophistication that may pay off in commercial products. Out of its military experience, France leads the world in the development of STOL (for short take-off and landing) transport planes. Sweden's plane-and-automaking Saab is now turning out compact computers for the commercial market, having learned to make them for its jet fighters. Most European contractors, however, have so far found the commercial side-effects disappointing. Britain, despairing of competing in sophisticated...
...housewife. It lures the country boy weary of milking machines, and holds the city girl living on a budget. Today "unknown" urban universities are blossoming across the land, and if none of them are yet another Harvard, Chicago or University of California, some of them are poised for take-off in that direction...
...Most "take-off" universities start with one strong suit - typically, a good medical school. What marks them is a new effort to strengthen their other schools, to pool their resources with former rivals, to serve the community in some striking way, to install strong leadership and keep moving. Though worried because they lag in undergraduate education, they nonetheless see graduate study as their rising role in a knowledge-hungry society. More than ever they are ready to use money effectively. At least four such schools, all private, have now outstripped their regional reputations and stand ready for national recognition...