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...Impose a $400-a-year tuition on students attending the city university and ask faculty members to add an extra hour to the average 8.5 hours they teach a week...
Many seniors postpone the job search by applying to graduate school. Explains John Buckley, placement director at New York University: "They go to graduate school because they don't have a $12,000-a-year job and they hope the economy will turn." Some students suffer deeply, however, when they are turned down for graduate work. "A state of panic seems to hit them," says Anthena Constantine, placement director at Columbia. Indeed, the odds for graduate-school admission can be frightening. Columbia, for example, had 5,000 applications for 300 places in its law school, 5,000 applications...
...Princeton (where he wrestled and played hockey), he worked for Merrill Lynch, then entered N.Y.U.'s graduate school of business administration to earn a Ph.D. in economics while also holding down jobs of assistant dean and assistant professor. Returning to business, he rose to become $100,000-a-year senior vice president of Baltimore's Commercial Credit Co. before joining the Federal Government two years ago. As energy administrator, he was known as a "tough manager" and a "compulsive worker." He maintained good relations with Congress, but his insistence on a high gasoline tax led to a split...
...break the law, but I'm just not going to cooperate with agencies like the FBI when they ask me questions about my friends." Such comments drew some quick foul calls by phone, hundreds of letters, and a few cancellations by season-ticket holders. The $400,000-a-year center "has reaped extraordinary benefits from this system," said team officials in their own public statement. Portland Television Sportscaster Doug Lamear urged the Blazers to exchange one famous vegetarian for another by trading Walton "for Euell Gibbons and a six-pack of carrot juice." That just might be a good...
...University of California regents by dismissing their verbose academic plan as a "perfect example of the squid process: ink spread across the page in unintelligible wordlike patterns that tell me absolutely nothing." He suggested that University President-designate David Saxon take a cut in his scheduled $59,500-a-year salary. Asked Brown: "Why in the world are salaries higher for administrators when the basic mission is teaching...