Word: tas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kurt Vonnegut's books, Mother Night, that belongs to the third largest library in the country is pasted a very-old-looking bookplate. The plate bears an oval portrait of a woman beneath which is written "IN MEMORY OF PERMELIA E. CHENEY HERSEY/ 1848 VE RI TAS 1926/ THE GIFT OF HER SON/ FRANK WILSON CHENEY HERSEY/ CLASS OF 1899/ FOR RECENT BOOKS IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE...
After a month of operation, Turquet believes that his pristine store, where the whir of a Bull-GE TAS-84 computer has replaced the clang of pushcarts and the monotony of canned music, is a going concern. His profit margin is 15%, his stock turns over every two weeks, and, says he, "the 2% other supermarkets have to deduct in theft losses ev ery month pays my rental fee for the computer...
Shuttling into Kai Tak Airport, 24 chartered Pan American 707s daily un load waves of Gibson dealers and their wives who have won a "High Adventure in Hong Kong" trip by filling sales quo tas on refrigerators, washers, dryers and air conditioners. Before the month-long series of visits is over, 3,700 Gibson girls and boys will have sampled Hong Kong for four days, spent another day in Tokyo for good measure...
...well as being "underpaid and overworked," we TAs are usually much maligned, both by the academic community and by the parents of the little darlings we are sweating and slaving to educate. I hope that your article will result, if not in immediate raises, at least in improvement of our image...
...David Thomas, 30, a fellow at Harvard. And for its admitted defects the system offers an ultimate remedy: when the next baby boom (that is, the children of the now-maturing last one) comes along, U.S. universities should have a much ampler supply of professors, many of them former TAs or students of TAs...