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...ranks all Division I programs with a RPI of .500 or above. These are called teams under consideration (TUC...
Each team under consideration is then compared to every other TUC based on a number of criteria. If a team wins the comparison, it gains one point in the pairwise rankings. The number of points are then totalled and each team is ranked...
...major school of Christmas gift giving holds that it is not the thought that counts, it's the cost of a gift multiplied by its value on the Total Uselessness Continuum (TUC) which determines its success as a crowd pleaser. For example, if your giftee does not own any sort of boat and lives in Central lowa, you can given him or her a brass ship's wheel which costs about $550 in the Quincy market. On a Total Uselessness scale from 1 (relatively useful), to 10 (no earthly reason why anyone would need this object), a ship's wheel...
...million-member engineers' union has also voted against further wage restraints, and a host of smaller unions are expected to follow suit, creating a sudden and inflationary wage explosion at the end of this month. This week Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey meets with TUC leaders. He hopes to persuade the trade union body to join the government in an appeal to hold down wage demands. In exchange for this support, the government is expected to promise some form of price controls...
...salty, aggressive general secretary of Britain's Trades Union Congress (1969-73); of a stroke; in London. At 14, Victor Feather filled flour sacks in a grocery co-op to help support his family; at 15, he joined the shop assistants union and at 29 he became a TUC organizer in London. During his 37 years on the staff, Feather led some of the TUC's toughest negotiations. When Britain's Tory government in 1971 passed the Industrial Relations Act restricting union power, Feather made it largely inoperative by refusing to cooperate. A fighter but also...