Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Short Day. The settlement made many teachers wonder if the five-day strike was worthwhile. It preserves the official class size at 32 in elementary school, 33 in junior high and 34 in senior high, but it reduces the class day-at six hours and 20 minutes already one of the shortest in any large city-by two 45-minute periods a week. In return for the abbreviated schedule, teachers give up two preparation periods. The board agreed to use the money it "saved" during the strike (by not paying teachers' salaries and by fining them two days...
...Back in 1908, the government succeeded in banning a headache remedy containing a toxic acid and bearing the beguiling name of Cuforhedake-Brane-Fude. The Food and Drug Administration, which was formally established in 1931, has stamped out such gross quackery. But now many concerned scientists are beginning to wonder whether the FDA has become so cautious in its repression of quack cures and unsafe medicines that it is in some danger of stamping out or at least slowing the development of new drugs. The latest report is by two pharmacologists from the University of Rochester School of Medicine...
...handguns in the U.S. A .38-cal. cartridge, for instance, will put a dent in the Kevlar (see cut), but the knit layers absorb the shock, leaving the imprint of the weave on the slug as it blunts into mushroom-shape and then falls harmlessly away. Small wonder that President Ford was reported wearing Kevlar on the New Hampshire hustings and that 50,000 policemen already have or will soon get the new body armor...
...about 15 times more expensive to develop than Middle Eastern crude, so even a dip of a dollar or two in the world oil price, to $11 or $12 per bbl., could render the oil from some fields unprofitable. Says Oil Expert John Lichtblau: "It's no wonder that the industry joke at the moment has Harold Wilson joining Britain to OPEC and asking for a rise in the price...
...thought that occurs to no one. Neither Redford, Director Sydney Pollack (The Way We Were) nor any of the assortment of assembled co-stars (Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman) can make material like this better than passable. No one could, and you wonder why anyone bothers. Redford and all his co-stars and all the elaborate production details are aimless embellishment, like putting neon lighting around a void...