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...since the beginning of the year, and a general strike has crippled the country's economy. Bananas, one of Grenada's major exports, lie rotting in the fields, and nutmeg and cocoa, the two other principal crops, are piled up in warehouses with no one to load them onto ships. Britain prudently cancelled the scheduled visit of Prince Richard of Gloucester, a representative of the Queen, to the independence ceremonies and alerted a warship to stand by to evacuate foreigners in case of violence. The U.S. State Department advised Americans to look for another tourist paradise. Tourism, which...
...Endorsed creation of a new National Court of Appeals to hear certain kinds of cases and render decisions that would be final unless the Supreme Court intervened within a set period of time. The aim is to reduce the high court's work load. Many delegates wanted to table the matter, but Smith persuaded them to take a firm stand in support of the idea...
...this followed a very shaky start. Pogue and Carr came down with motion sickness shortly after liftoff. Pressing hard to keep up with their heavy work load, the astronauts bungled several experiments and misunderstandings arose between crew and Mission Control. That, in turn, raised concern among NASA officials about the ability of the men to endure prolonged isolation and weightlessness. To compound those troubles, one of the space station's three stabilizing gyroscopes broke down and another periodically faltered -threatening the photographic studies of sun and earth, which require an extremely stable vantage point. Finally, the crew grew...
Appointments and resources would be allocated to the program in proportion to its teaching load within the department. Galbraith foresees about a quarter of each entering class of graduate students electing to work toward their degrees under the experimental rubric...
...What they're rebelling against is the attitude that you can be a halfass advertising man and sell a load of crap to folks and expect to get paid...