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...School Superintendent John Porter: "Education is the only constitutionally established responsibility in which the people are asked to participate in the financing. We don't ask them to levy millage against themselves for highways or health services-only for schools. It's the only place people can vent their frustrations about taxes." Unless public attitudes change, Detroit schools may lose half of their remaining property tax revenues next year when a 7.5-mill tax comes up for reapproval...
...interview given to England's New Musical Express stresses Alice's offstage normaley. Nick Kent, the interviewer, remarks on the apparent paradox between the Alice Cooper image and the man. He refers to "the charm and good manners of the All-American college boy he appears when not giving vent to his transvestite juvenile delinquent alter-ago." Kent also notes his own surprise at "how overtly masculine they (the band) look," and Alice's cross-country career at his Phoenix high school. In line with all this one of rock's current rumors is that Alice Cooper is really...
...cycle begins when one end of the air-pumping piston passes a vent in the engine casing and sucks air into its cylinder (1). At exactly the same moment, the other end of the piston is pushing the air that it has already captured and compressed into a passage at the opposite side of the engine casing. As the rotor turns, the air is forced through a transfer port into the cylinder of the power piston (2). Continuing its rotation, the power piston compresses the air even more (3). As the piston's cylinder moves past the fuel injector...
Further, since many older citizens cannot find an adequate means to vent their frustrations on what they conceive to be a deteriorating political scene, they tend to channel their despair toward established but threatened institutions, such as universities. To convince alumni of the soundness of sex-blind admissions will require slow, steady, yet intense efforts by students. For alumni visions of Harvard and Yale are not intellectual but emotional...
...ferry, every factory along the river, began to scream. More cannon boomed. Bells rang, people were cheering wildly on every side. The band played "Hail to the Chief" maybe six or seven more times and, at the sight of Arthur 'the great multitude in the station arose and gave vent to the wildest enthusiasm...