Word: dozen
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City police officers barred access to upper floors of the hotel to all but guests. A dozen or so teen-agers mixed with reporters, discussing the arrest, outside...
...quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said to be both a classical...
...keeping with the new emphasis on marketing, libraries are increasingly providing services to businesses. The Louisville public library, for example, has its own patent collection. A dozen facilities around the country advise small firms on how to win federal contracts. Last July the Los Angeles Public Library introduced FYI, a fee-based research and document-service that gives businesses access to 1,500 on-line data bases and a national library network. Once the desired information is located, researchers fax or hand-deliver it right to a client's desk...
Bush never wanted a new plane. Ronald Reagan never asked for one either. This was a classic case of creation by consortium: a dozen or so offices and agencies doing their jobs as best they know how. Nobody looked up and saw that their individual efforts had created a monster...
...Extraditables also said they had seized at least two dozen other prominent citizens. According to reports in two Bogota newspapers, the abductions were ordered by drug boss Pablo Escobar Gaviria, who is still on the run following a close escape from...