Word: usual
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This is not the usual procedure however; 66 is the official retirement age at Harvard. A professor must retire "after the completion of the academic year in which he has reached his 66 birthday," unless he is specifically asked to remain by the Corporation...
...Some Brazilians like to think that Brazil has stumbled onto some miracle of economic alchemy. "It is like the bumblebee," says Publisher Manuel de Vasconcelos. "According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumblebee cannot fly. But the bumblebee ignores the law, and flies anyway." Deliberately, President Juscelino Kubitschek ignores usual standards of fiscal stability and gambles instead on a revolution of development. "Fifty years of progress in five," he promises...
With Relief, a Living. As usual, the disputants were miles apart on the strike's effectiveness. Said a hospital spokesman: only about 1,000 of 3,500 nonprofessional workers had heeded the call. Claimed the union: 3,200 out of 4,300 were out. But there was no question as to the issues: the union wanted recognition to bargain collectively for the workers, 27,000 of whom in New York City's 82 voluntary, nonprofit hospitals are woefully underpaid.* Local 1199 charged that the bulk of them make less than $40 (some as little...
...done, as usual, a pretty slick job as a straight-face comic, and he would have done a better job-along with Actor Douglas and Actress Reynolds-if Director George Marshall had not decided to play The Mating Game at a speed less suitable to a romantic comedy than to a board of chess...
While it is the usual practice for publicity men to emphasize sex in every film they promote, they did us a real disservice with Baby Doll, for their work was largely responsible for starting a controversy that only obscured the quality of the film. Baby Doll is neither as good nor as bad as various partisans have argued, and certainly not as dirty...