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Erica S. Eisenberg '86, chairman of the Council's student services subcommittee, said yesterday the Council has agreed to absorb up to $250 more in bus fares for students who cannot afford the ride. "I think that the people most affected by the cuts are those who can least afford to get down there," she explained...
...current display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art each piece is enhanced by its isolation. Hence, for most viewers, the show becomes a unique opportunity to enjoy and absorb the beauty of each object and painting. Many of these people will one day come to the Vatican. Then will they understand the context they missed. More important, they will want to see more art. There is no doubt that for them the risk is amply justified...
Thanks to the acquisition, U.A.B.'s 135,000 depositors will not lose a penny. First Tennessee will also absorb up to $86.5 million in uncollectible U.A.B. loans. Any more than that will be covered by the FDIC, which believes the total may reach $160 million. The biggest loser is Jake Butcher; he owned $15 million in U.A.B. stock that is now worthless. The flamboyant entrepreneur, who five years ago was Tennessee's Democratic candidate for Governor, and who was the driving force behind last year's Knoxville World's Fair, has clearly lost more than...
Healy said that with the economic growth that Cambridge is experiencing it will be important to look at the city 10 to 15 years in the future to see whether the city can absorb the expansion...
...fact, what he called his old Oxford neighbor [J.R.R.] Tolkien (whose books he refused to read ...), a 'monologist.' He would listen to whatever anyone had to say-although when he was especially wrapped up in his work ... he could not always absorb the sense of what was said ... During this period he got as hopelessly absent-minded as he ever has been ... When he was doing chores he would be thinking about the work ... Once when laying the table he put down knife, fork and glass for [his character] Sergeant Lamb. He did not do this, however...