Word: year-long
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...work in a poverty pro gram. Some are drawn to such work be cause it offers a better chance of escaping the draft. But many are motivated by a genuine desire to help others. The fact that increasing numbers of senior partners are inclined to look on a year-long clerkship or work in a poverty program as excellent training is further encouragement to men who want to wait a while before deciding where to settle down...
Martin H. Peretz, assistant professor of Social Studies, challenged Glimp's statement that none of the ROTC programs--Army, Navy, or Air Force--would be changed next Fall. Glimp had said that the Army ROTC contract required a year's notice for changing the program, and that his committee had decided to treat all three programs with the same year-long negotiation time...
...narrowly directed courses which can be put together at the end of the term and distilled into a paper or a final examination. A single ten-page paper could never adequately represent a student's over-all record in tutorial; only the tutor could properly evaluate his student's year-long performance...
...corporate chiefs, who have long complained of a profits squeeze, fared better in 1968 than they had any reason to expect. They were beset by rising labor and material costs, year-long predictions of imminent economic slow down and the 10% income tax surcharge. But the slowdown never materialized, and many companies managed to offset higher costs and taxes by increasing their prices and generating more sales. The results from early-reporting corporations indicate that after-tax prof its climbed by 6% from the $48 billion of 1967 and at least equaled the $51 billion record...
...equipped police swirled around a barricaded building while ragged defenders struggled to hold them off. Helicopters clattered overhead broadcasting calls for surrender; tear gas billowed and missiles flew. While millions of Japanese watched on television last week, the storming of Tokyo University brought a violent end to a bitter, year-long student strike...