Word: ds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dismayed because they have seen the future. The future works, as it turns out, but only if they make a run for more batteries. Not, as in the good old days, a couple of 10? Evereadys, but bushels of expensive nine-volts, pecks of Penlites, and Cs and Ds in numbers beyond counting...
...range is high, encompassing top Bs, Cs and even Ds with an unforced, open-throated quality that Italians call lasciarsi andare?letting it pour forth. Many tenors blessed with such an instrument would be content to let it pour forth at top volume, and subtlety be damned. Pavarotti has instinctive taste and musicality, not to mention a keen sense of timing. He shades his phrasing and dynamics in order to bring the composer's lines to life and let them breathe...
...undergraduate receives one F or two Ds in any semester, he has an unsatisfactory record and his case is discussed at a meeting of the ad board. Roughly half of those students who receive unsatisfactory records are placed on probation for a semester. Students who fail two or more are usually asked to withdraw. Failure of a course in two successive semesters usually results in either probation or withdrawal. Approximately half of those students placed on probation are restricted from participating in any extracurricular activities...
...used the name Peter Scriver and carried British passport number 260896. After checking into the Hotel Mediterrannee in west Beirut, he rented a Volkswagen from the Lenacar agency. At about the same time, a blond, friendly man who called himself Roland Kolberg and carried Canadian passport number DS 104277 checked into the Royal Gardens Hotel, also in west Beirut, and rented a gray Simca, also from Lenacar Kolberg said he was a sales representative tor Regent Sheffield, Ltd., a New York producer of cutlery and kitchenware. Nobody at the firm has ever heard of Kolberg; British officials say that...
...inexpensive cars: a 1973 Ford Pinto and a 1975 Honda. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano earned $505,490 from his Washington law firm, about twice what Secretary of State Cyrus Vance drew from his law firm on Wall Street. But Vance's assets-six Es, two Ds, three Cs, one B and two As (at least $750,000 and possibly well into the millions) beat Califano's three Es, three Cs and two As (upwards of $345,000). Agriculture Secretary Robert Bergland's salary as a Congressman ($44,600) was more than double...