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Despite his predictions that the program would flop, Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci offered to vote with the four CIA members to "give it a whirl." Vellum's support gave the measure a majority of the Council's nine votes. Later, the program passed 8 to 1, with Councilor William H. Walsh dissenting...
...perhaps the most sensitive part of the issue, condemns the element of personal gain for the professor. "That's absolutely wrong," he states. He adds that the whole adventure gives off a deplorable "me first, let's get in there and make our money" attitude. In today's business whirl, though, with M.B.A. students convinced that the bucks start here, the wonder may be that no one thought of Edelman's $100,000 learn-and-earn incentive before...
...gold ring seemed to be so reachable. With the incumbent retiring and neither party boasting an automatic heir, just about any credible politician could board the presidential carousel. Many have, along with some less credible ones, 14 all told at last count. Yet the number who decline to whirl has grown just as startlingly...
...parents may feel like they are at the circus as well, as organizers said they have planned a whirl of activities that will keep the alumni very entertained...
Ordinary conductivity, the measure of a material's ability to transmit electrical current, is determined by events that take place at the atomic level. Atoms consist of a tiny dense nucleus that contains positively charged protons and chargeless neutrons. Around the nucleus whirl the negatively charged electrons, residing in shells with shapes determined by the electrons' energy levels...