Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient custom, a Japanese fiancé seals the engagement by buying the bride. Last week Crown Prince Akihito made a small investment (two fish, five rolls of white silk, six bottles of sake), officially sealed his troth to Michiko Shoda, who then knuckled down to the weary task of studying the archaic imperial wedding lore under Palace Ritualist Osanaga Kanroji. His bride in hand, the prince was free to join his parents. Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagoko, at a heady gala: the annual poetry-reading contest. Fired by this year's contemporary topic (windows), an astounding 22,427 waka...
...accountants," simply because the most obvious applications are for statistical jobs. Computers are usually put to work first on payroll jobs, which already use highly mechanized punch-card systems. While the computer can often do the work more quickly, it does not pay to put it on a task that is being done efficiently...
Author Griffith proffers no ready cure for the distemper of the times. He raises a muffled cheer for a selfless elite that would set high cultural standards and hew to them. But he spurns existing elites as too withdrawn, 'insecure, and narrowly snobbish for the task...
...board such as the Cambridge Drama Festival now holds. This would not only dispel the charges of unfairness that now jeopardize the Arts Center project, but the valuable theatrical experience of a boader range of people on the MeBAC board might well benefit the Center in its hazardous task of launching a repertory theatre...
Reached by phone yesterday, Blaik said that he was looking forward to his new assignment. He stated that his first task would be to "find a lonesome end somewhere on campus." Blaik plans to begin "talking up Harvard football" immediately. "I am encouraged about recruiting prospects," he said. "I've been told that we'll have a good share of that Program money for scholarships. Terry and I will really put your school...