Word: finaling
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Concerns about Scheme Z must submitted to DeVillars' office by December 26, one week before he makes his final ruling. Following the ruling, the city will have 20 days in which to mount a legal challenge...
...schools of all the world" is marking a significant anniversary: exactly 550 years have passed since Henry VI dreamed up a school just down the road from Windsor Castle to accommodate "25 poor and indigent scholars." And last week's St. Andrew's Day (Nov. 30), the final great red-letter day of the school's anniversary year, was celebrated in typically Etonian style, with a staging of the annual Wall Game, a notorious blood sport in which 20 savage nobles flail and scramble in the mud in what is fittingly known as a "bully." Punching is forbidden, but applying...
There was more than enough time to catch the telescope's flaw. Rough grinding of the mirror began in 1978, final polishing was not finished until 1981, and the completed telescope sat on the ground for four years after the space shuttle program was disrupted by the Challenger explosion. The mirror's manufacturer, Connecticut-based Perkin-Elmer Corp.,* told NASA that the standards of precision established for the mirror were not only met but exceeded. The only problem was that the mirror had been painstakingly polished into the wrong shape...
Thus far, De Klerk has steered clear of confessions, apologies and reparations. Some of his advisers believe, however, that some sort of official apology might be forthcoming in the final stages of negotiations. The most outspoken comment from De Klerk's circle has come from Deputy Foreign Minister Leon Wessels. Last August he described apartheid as "a dreadful mistake" that did not take "human factors" into account. "An apology is on the minds of many Afrikaners," Wessels says, "but not on the mind of the government...
Last week public-TV officials took a decisive step toward reversing that trend, as the PBS board of directors gave final approval to a major revamping of the network's organizational structure. In the new setup, the crucial decisions about which programs will receive PBS funding -- previously made by a majority vote of the local stations -- will be in the hands of one executive. The plan, first unveiled last summer, has drawn objections from officials at several large PBS stations. Says William Baker, president of New York's WNET: "The whole world, even the Soviet Union, is going from...