Word: takers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government declared that it was punishing BP for supplying oil to South Africa in violation of a Nigerian boycott, a charge that the company denies. The takeover deprives BP of an estimated 300,000 bbl. per day, but the Nigerian government is offering to sell the crude to any taker on the spot market, presumably including...
James B. Hill of Somerville, a ticket taker at the theater, has filed charges of assault and battery with the Cambridge Police as a result of the incident...
...professor can choose to go on leave if certain conditions can be satisfied. Eligibility for paid leaves of absence depends upon the type and term of appointment of the leave-taker. After six years with Harvard, tenured faculty members are eligible for a sabbatical. Thereafter, they are entitled to a sabbatical every seven years. Harvard will give them half pay for a full year sabbatical, or full pay for a half year. Associate and assistant professors may also receive paid research leaves, but only under certain circumstances, which vary from department to department. To supplement Harvard's payment, some professors...
...judgment the largest asset of America is the very one that is so easily squandered," Valenti boomed. "It is the enterprising entrepreneur, the risk taker, the competitive antagonist, the builder of plants and factories, the creator of new enterprises and the expander of old ones, the people who make better mousetraps, cheaper and faster. If our economy is not strong, we will have neither the zest nor the vitality for other adventures, however useful and attractive they...
With a jazz trio providing his backup, he begins stitching together the blue-collar bromides, raunchy puns and gritty street lingo that characterize his verse. "It's cold out there/ colder than a ticket taker's smile/ at the Ivar Theater, on a Saturday night," he chants in a voice that sounds like a bad exhaust. The Ivar Theater is a two-bit Hollywood burlesque house where he has spent more than a few evenings...