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Theoretically the new system, as it is instituted gradually in a three-year process, will place the overflow of students that causes crowding in Houses and rooms that can most easily absorb additional residents...
...magazines face a damned-if-they-do, damned-if-they-don't choice. They cannot afford to absorb the new rates, and the entire history of subscription promotion shows that many readers will refuse to pay the freight as well...
...river as a symbol of the entire country. Sophisticated Western listeners would have no trouble picking Yellow River apart, but for all its naivete, it is adroitly orchestrated and engagingly melodic. In addition, the concerto is genuinely historic-the first real specimen of China's current efforts to absorb Western music. "The fact is," says New York's Daniel Epstein, 27, the superb piano soloist on the LP, "that Yellow River is the favorite music of one-fifth of the world's population, and that alone merits its beingheard." William Bender
...students and two fewer assistant professors next year. The History Department will probably not be the only department to be forced to cut back on its teaching staff; Rosovsky has asked every department to maintain its teaching staff costs at the same level as last year's, and to absorb the inflation however...
Kaufmann said that "by giving each department this [no-growth] objective, the dean is giving them the flexibility to choose how to absorb the costs...