Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ohio State but courses there are generally taught in large lecture halls and exams are computer scored and multiple choice. "I had to opt to write papers," she says. Studying for courses meant highlighting with felt tip pens and then marking special passages with small colored dots of tape, she says, pulling out an old textbook festooned with a rainbow of different colored highliters and dots...
...throwers popped balloons attached to the pictures of Presidential Hopefuls Ronald Reagan, Mo Udall, Scoop Jackson and others. ("That's for people who are doing the primaries," said Candidate Gene McCarthy loftily.) One of the evening's biggest attractions proved to be the door prize - a cassette tape recording of ex-President Nixon's last speeches...
...would not have taken much for the State Department to overrule the fanatics at the Paris Embassy--a simple clearance, for cultural exchange, would have erased the embassy's efforts. But with all the information at hand, the State Department stalled--citing bureaucratic red tape as the reason--and caused the group to cancel its initial tour...
...funds from the program, and HUD therefore gave the developers no technical assistance, no planning grants, no help in starting up schools or transit systems. In processing applications for bond guarantees or for federal subsidies for low-income housing, HUD also ensnarled the applicants in reams of unnecessary red tape. "Decisions are made, unmade and obfuscated to a degree that makes the imperial Chinese bureaucracy appear decisive and swift-moving," says Mark Freeman, executive director of the League of New-Community Developers. The effect has been to stifle the very experimentation that Congress had called...
...Crimson was ecstatic. As he cleared off the court and ripped up the base line tape, Graham explained, "It was the best consistent team work we've had all year. Everybody was psyched up, but we still held it together for some reason...