Word: unless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Francis A. Lawton, assistant dean of the Faculty for resources and facilities, said yesterday he expects the other three South House dorms, Briggs, Barnard and Cabot, to be rewired next summer unless CHUL changes its priorities...
...Unless he can prove Harvard is a public institution or that its actions constitute action by the state, Krohn cannot bring the question of whether he was unfairly rejected into the courts...
...Eliminates the $100 per week exclusion of "sick pay" from taxable income unless the recipient is totally disabled...
...Naturally, the advice is always sound. Instead of taking a course in speed reading, Edwin suggests, read more selectively. Take breaks to change the tempo and ease the tension of work. Say no a lot, because "you cannot protect your priorities unless you learn to decline, tactfully but firmly, every request that does not contribute to your goal." One can fight procrastination, too, by (a) chopping up ominously large tasks into easily manageable small components; (b) listing the reasons for delay on one side of a piece of paper and the benefits from completing the job on the other...
Flannery O'Connor, the late short-story master from Georgia, once noted that "any fiction that comes out of the South is going to be considered grotesque by the Northern critic, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be considered realistic." At the time-the '50s-it was a convenient arrangement: regionalism provided neat categories for prides and prejudices. But the postwar boundaries could not hold...