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...advancement. Although Florida offered 20% more pay for teaching three trimesters instead of two semesters, many teachers would rather have had the extra vacation or moonlighting time. Since trimesters are shorter by two weeks than the old 1 6-week semesters, professors have had to tighten up their courses. The trend in examinations is away from penetrating essay questions to machine-graded objective tests...
...study with the expatriate classicist Poussin. Le Brun was solidly attached to the papal court of the Barberini family, and after the Pamphilis took over, he headed back to France. Plunging into the Parisian artistic establishment, Le Brun helped organize the Royal Academy, became its rector, and began to tighten his grip on the new generation of painters and decorators...
...Hilton operates a globe-circling reservation system of 126 sales offices, which produce 25% of his room business. Each hotel keeps a rigid watch on costs and sends daily reports to Hilton headquarters, which knows within 24 hours whether a banquet in Cairo or Hong Kong made money. To tighten costs, two teams of executives surveyed 15 Hilton hotels in the U.S. last year, came up with findings that will save the chain nearly $2 million. All this has helped to bring the Hilton chain's labor bill down to 40% of its revenue, v. 45% for most transient...
...rations, maps are scrounged. The tunnel is a marvel of Swiss Family Robinson ingenuity, with electric lights, a little subway running on wooden tracks, a bellows-operated ventilation system. And as the first of the 76 escapers starts through the tunnel, the thongs of suspense are only beginning to tighten...
...Cubana Airlines passenger), many nations are still reluctant to go on record in favor of anything that suggests intervention in the affairs of a sovereign state. Even embattled Venezuela, long Castro's No. 1 target, refused to go along, arguing that a travel ban and other moves to tighten internal security were police state tactics. "My government, " said Venezuela's OAS delegate, "cannot accept fighting Communist subversion with measures that are not in strictest conformity with democratic principles." U.S. citizens in Caracas, subjected to harassment and bombings in recent weeks, think this excess of scrupulosity helps explain Venezuela...