Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although the committee will proceed expeditiously, it is impossible to predict how long it will take the committee to perform its task," Bok said. Cotton replied, "If we're going to get change this year, it can't be made the day before exams. That just won't work...
...greatly in demand. With unemployment down to a 15-year low of 3.3%, and want ads bulging in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times, there are more openings for $15,000-a-year engineers and $10,000-a-year computer programmers than the work force can possibly fill. People are hopping from job to job as never before, always searching for-and usually getting -the richer reward. Some jobs, of course, pay conspicuously more than others. From campus to board room, there is increasing discussion about who gets how much...
...true? Suddenly the earth is no longer steady. Their son, whom she had raised to be a left-wing intellectual, quits work on his Ph.D. thesis and, to please his shallow wife, takes a profitable sinecure in the Ministry of Culture. (The choice is amusing; Leftist de Beauvoir is taking a poke at De Gaulle's "house" intellectual, Minister of Culture Andre Malraux.) Then reviews appear of her latest book, a work intended to offer fresh approaches to literary criticism. "Wearisome repetition," they say, or at best, "an interesting restatement." The reviewers are correct, she realizes, and it seems...
...musical instruments in this way. "You can think of lights and the tempo of changing lights and the tempo of changing lights as providing the rhythm, the liquids correpsond to the drums, the slides to guitar and the films to lyrics." And indeed the parallels more or less work. The Road's members are insistent that they have an edge on most light shows, which are pre-programmed on a computer, because they exert human control over their components and so are free to improvise in the attempt to capture the emotional and musical impact of whatever is being played...
...Unless we can work this out together." he emphasized, "I'm afraid that any answers the committee comes up with won't be satisfactory...