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...eight-week series, which started Oct. 27, focuses on three fictional New York City families, following their his tories from 1880 to 1900. There are the poor Irish immigrants, the middle-class clergyman's family and the railroad-and bank-owning aristocrats. Real events, such as the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, provide the framework for each episode. The scriptwriters, unhappily, are responsible for the rest...
Last fall Drayton taught an eight-week module course at the Kennedy School called "Regulatory Alternatives...
Every summer West Point runs its fresh-faced plebes through a grueling eight-week training program known as Beast Barracks. This year there were some beauties in the Beast: 119 women, the first in the academy's 174-year history, joined 1,480 male plebes in the Long Gray Line...
Levi apparently became suspicious of the probers themselves after they decided at the end of an eight-week inquiry that Mohr had merely used bad judgment but had done nothing wrong. In the FBI, the men who supervised the investigation were known as "Mohr's clique." They included Associate FBI Director Nicholas P. Callahan, his two deputies, Thomas J. Jenkins and James B. Adams, Administrative Chief Eugene W. Walsh and Inspection Division Chief Harold W. Bassett...
...Bowl. Some 200 reporters representing news organizations from as far away as Australia and West Germany were in town for the event. Court groupies and Hearst case buffs arrived from all over the country; some had taken leaves from their jobs to see as much of the six-to eight-week trial as possible...