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Such labor is in itself an absurdity, since it requires the student to produce figures which he does not have and implies that his grant will depend upon these figures. Few students know how much money they spend on entertainment, books, laundry, or anything else. Those who do know realize that they spend more on these items than the financial aid office allows, and therefore fill in the maximum figure. They then balance their imaginary budget by neglecting to report part of their income...
...announcement is important for a number of reasons. If practical means for producing the drug can be found, doctors will no longer depend on imports of the root from which it is made. This is particularly significant as it is possible that the nations exporting the root may soon put an embargo...
...with their pinch-effect experiments. He pointed out that it had not yet proved possible to keep the hot gas out of contact with the walls of the tube for more than a fraction of a second. "The success of further work in this direction," he said, "will greatly depend on the possibility of creating conditions under which the plasma [ionized gas] column will experience multiple oscillations during the buildup of the current without coming in contact with the walls. However, there are serious reasons to believe that this cannot be achieved...
...Grumble. As expected, some church leaders grumbled about immorality. Laborite Harold Wilson taunted: "Now Britain's strength, freedom and solvency apparently depend on the proceeds from a squalid raffle." The left-wing New Statesman and Nation labeled Macmillan's proposal "the birth of the windfall state." But the august London Times defended the new bond, and so did the Financial Times...
...varsity led by wins at the top by Dale Junta and Captain Brooks Harris at first and second singles respectively, and aided by the doubles power which Coach Jack Barnaby hopes to depend on throughout the season, lost only two singles and one doubles contests...