Word: used
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first portion questions the use of some $2.5 million the SPH used to purchase equipment and maintain facilities. The second portion, as Scott explains, questions about $15 million distributed under the University's "salary certification system." "The payroll distribution system and related internal controls are not in compliance with federal regulations," the 60-page document charges. "The system that was used and currently in use does not provide reasonable assurance that direct costs for the personal services of professorial and other professional staff were either proper or reasonable...
...added, however, "We were able to throw them off their scheduled time by at least a week," and use administrators to handle their work, alleviating some of the chaos. Clerical workers were still on hand for registration...
Florida Gov. Bob Graham yesterday afternoon ordered 1000 National Guardsmen to assist with the evacuation of 150,000 people, and police in Florida said they would use force, if necessary, to move people out of the danger areas...
...term is still tempting. It seems the one word that will do to point toward something moribund in a culture, the metastasis of despair that occurs when a society loses faith in its own future, when its energy wanes and dies. It would probably be more narrowly accurate to use words like corrupt or depraved to describe, say, punk rock, or murder in a gas line, but decadent is more popular because it contains a prophecy. To be decadent is to be not just corrupt, but terminally corrupt. "Decadence" speaks with the iron will of history and the punishment...
...smoking frictions of rapid change, the anxiety caused by a sense of impermanence. The nation's creative forces, however, remain remarkably strong - in the sciences, for example, where achievements in physics, mathematics, biology and medicine rank beside anything so far accomplished on the planet. Before anyone tries to use too seriously the awful and thrilling word decadence, he ought to distinguish between the customary mess of life and the terminal wreckage of death...