Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disk was the most sought-after part because it served as the hub for the engine's turbine blades. Metallurgists who inspected the disk last week found a crack that appeared to have been present before the explosion and may have triggered it. From its total reward fund of $271,000, GE paid farmer Sorenson, 58, a bounty of $120,000 for her discovery...
...Democrats, they share the goal of a liberalized East Germany, not a capitalist one. "We are not enemies of the German Democratic Republic or a threat to anyone," says Jens Reich, a molecular biologist who helped found New Forum. "We just want the country to get out of its present crisis...
Some nations, notably West Germany, are considering a new bookkeeping system to take account of the environmental costs of economic production. Present measures of gross national product were developed in the 1930s, when natural resources seemed infinite. In the Philippines today, renegade coastal villagers harvest fish by dynamiting tropical reefs. Under current accounting methods, this practice shows up as contributing to the GNP, with no adjustment for the depletion of the fisheries that results from the destruction of the reefs...
...Jewett maintains that the present situation heightens first-year student anxiety over where they will live and fosters feelings of exclusion by some houses. And that must be changed, the dean insists...
Department members will present the committee with information about how the undergraduate curriculum works, including information on the amount of student interest, departmental advising, concentration requirements, the "menu" and size of courses, the use of graduate student teaching fellows and the structure of tutorials...