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...tell now what the people will do in November," Rep. George Keverian '53 (D-Everett), the majority whip, said yesterday. Keverian said that no commercial enterprises are going to absorb the costs because all costs will be passed on to the consumer...
...rich Russians just $20 a ton. Nor are the state-owned Soviet ships saddled with the interest and financing charges that can account for about half the costs of running a Western vessel. Beyond that, the Soviet merchant marine does not have to show a profit; the state can absorb losses until Western lines cut service, or even abandon unprofitable routes. If that happens, warns A.E. Lemon, director of the British & Commonwealth Shipping Co., "the Russians will be able to raise rates to whatever level they wish...
...Instead he's been working here full-time for the past 25 years. He feels he grew up here--he loves Harvard. His grandmother told him, "you either go to a big university or you work for one," but Rick hasn't gotten the education she hoped he would absorb from hanging around these ivy walls. He worked his way up from a caretakers job in the animal labs to his present position as photographer for the News Office. He wanted to be a photographer for years, but he couldn't figure out a way to start...
Kozol said that Harvard serves the existing economic order better than any other American university but it uses "sophisticated means to absorb the very critics of the system which it maintains...
Lusterman and Norman don't possess Chassler's presence, her power to absorb an audience with each slight twitter. The two perform well in the idiom of Chassler's movement and occasionally hit upon the nexus of subjectivity/objectivity. Yet neither command Chassler's magic...