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Many institutions are financially unable to absorb a drastic change in the composition of the student body, expecially if it meant increasing overall size to achieve a 1:1 ratio. Harvard pleads this as part of its defense against 1:1 admissions. Another argument claims that imposing 1:1 regulations would mean a probable drop in the student body's caliber at schools where the size of male and female applicant pools differ greatly...
...members are now in much lower paid, non-trucking jobs. Card-carrying Teamsters now include hospital workers, bridge tenders and race-track guards in New York, rice-mill workers in Houston, lampmakers in Los Angeles and campus police at the University of Minnesota. The Teamsters will shortly absorb an entire union, the 47,000-member Brewery Workers. Yet for all their recruiting success, often the result of extravagant promises to workers, the Teamsters in non-trucking fields have the reputation of a do-nothing union that is content to accept area pay patterns and collect dues...
...rising food prices will not alter the $25 increase in boarding fees next year, Hale Champion, vice president for Financial Affairs, said yesterday. Champion added that the food services carry reserve funds which could be used to absorb increasing food prices...
...that was Nazism. There is a middle-range group of leftist intellectuals, roughly in their early 30s, who are violently anti-American because they consider the U.S. the model of a capitalist, imperialist society. The young generally see the U.S. as a corrupt military-industrial establishment -even as they absorb and emulate the latest made-in-America styles in rock sounds, drugs and fashions...
Financial considerations are prodding the government to object to this plan of payment, Gibson explained. In case of default, the graduated installments would create a greater outstanding balance which the government would be forced to absorb...