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Richard J. Olendzki, assistant dean for financial affairs at the Medical School, added, "Although we don't know how much the cuts will be exactly, it's obviously going to hurt and we're anxious about it." Olendzki said, "Optimistically, we'll be able to absorb much of the cut's effect...
...university structure, which knew only one way of change-rupture. The government and not the faculty controls the university. They decide everything from how much money is spent to what time the classes are given. There are no "intermediate institutions"-no student-faculty committees which can often muffle and absorb a conflict as at Harvard. If anything goes wrong it is brought straight to the ministry. In a system with such little leeway for evolution, any change was a radical change and any serious challenge liable to topple everything...
...York City teacher ought to adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy the prospect of not attending classes-in contrast to Harvard-per-usual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step. I began to absorb the issues of the strike-ROTC. Afro-American Studies, expansion-and could see nothing objectionable and a lot of good in the positions staked out by the first mass meeting...
...needed money, Waller would give it to him, even if he didn't have collateral," says Mayor W. T. (for William Thomas) Bruton. "A man's word was good enough." The debtors still owe the F.D.I.C. but if they cannot pay, Washington will have to absorb the loss. "The bank understood the people," mourns Mayor Bruton, summing up what seems to be the prevailing philosophy of his town. "The inspectors just didn't understand the bank...
...years, London's "situation summary" did not list a single menacing locust swarm. The FAO was pleased but not triumphant. Quite likely, as the FAO was the first to point out, an atypical lack of rainfall had inhibited breeding, since the locust's eggs must absorb their weight in water to hatch. Thus the FAO cautioned against concluding that the locust had simply dropped out of the picture. "He is still a global menace in a trough of inactivity," said Paul G. Hoffman, the U.N.'s development program administrator...