Word: transients
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When commercial TV was introduced in Britain four years ago, it was widely regarded as a transient evil from abroad and no cause for real alarm. Today a host of ecstatic advertisers attest that commercial television has come to the Isles to stay. Six companies now produce programs for the commercial channel in competition with the rigorously noncommercial BBC. One of the two leaders, Associated Television Ltd., announced last week that it had made ?4,100,000 ($11.5 million) in its 1957-58 fiscal year-almost ten times its previous year's profit...
...other hand, the line's big-city strips are long and smooth, and the terminals abound with electronic landing equipment, radar and comforts for passengers. Moscow's Victorian-style Vnukovo Airport compares with some of the best in the West, houses a transient hotel and a nursery with toys and cots for the tots...
Students who are remaining in Cambridge for the holidays may eat in the Kirkland House Dining Hall, and will be charged at a transient rate payable with coupons. Other students, of course, will not be charged regular board during the vacation...
...which some 94,000 native workers stream each day into Johannesburg to work for the white man-Basutos, Bechuanas, Xhosas and Zulus live more or less segregated from one another under a government policy designed to preserve tribal instincts and to maintain the fiction that all native labor is transient and will some day return to the bush...
...forms of other ideas, just as he had learned to treat all behavior as a substitute for some other kind of repressed behavior. And when he had related the configuration of events to the total pattern of incidental perceptions he found that a meaningful relationship existed between the transient and the intransient elements of the situation, which was worth an 'A' and therefore equated with intellectual excellence...