Word: consisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...source muses that under the new files law a student's recommendation could consist solely of, "This student wrote a paper of Milton and I gave him a B-plus for the course." The nightmare gets worse: It's who you know, not what you know...
Unfortunately, a radio telescope that could accomplish the equivalent of what, say, the 200-in. Mount Palomar telescope does optically would have to consist of a dish-shaped structure many miles in diameter-an obviously impractical requirement...
...Senate conferees prevailed in insisting that a relatively independent commission with enforcement powers be created to ensure that the new laws are observed. It would consist of six voting members, two each nominated by the House, the Senate and the President. All nominees to the commission would have to be confirmed by a majority vote of both the House and Senate. The commission could bring civil but not criminal action against offenders; the legislators had no wish to make it easier to jail a Senator or Representative...
...these training groups, which consist of nine or ten students and one advisor, the trainees participate in "role playing," in which one student plays the part of a counselor, one of a counselee. The seven other students look on as the first two act out a hypothetical conference. When their discussion ends, the spectators join the actors for a discussion of how the problem could better have been handled...
Instead of a clanking, high-speed conveyor line, the Kalmar plant uses 250 "carriers"-18-ft.-long computer-guided platforms that glide silently over the concrete floor. Each carrier delivers the frame for a single Volvo 264 to each of the plant's 25 work teams. The teams consist of 15 to 25 workers who are responsible for a certain aspect of assembly; one team, for example, will install the car's electrical system and another will work on the interior finish...