Word: belt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Belt-tightening measures saved $300,000 last academic year, the dean says. That adds up to less than two-tenths of 1 percent of a $180 million operating budget--and it still leaves $3.9 million to be accounted for in "savings...
...other words, between belt-tightening and attrition, the dean has cut about $1 million in "fat," and there's not much left...
...backs. Rap is also a worldwide fashion commodity. Local variations of the basic American street outfit -- baggy pants, pricey sneakers, hooded sweatshirts, flashes of jewelry -- turn up everywhere, from dance clubs to fashion layouts. Yves Saint Laurent produces golden belt buckles with his logo writ large, Public Enemy-style, and Karl Lagerfeld loads his Chanel models with enough baubles to sink M.C. Hammer into the ground like a stake. Spike's Joint in Tokyo (yes, that Spike) supplies Japanese trendies with film-related merchandise, from team jackets ($794) to the official Malcolm X baseball cap ($39) -- the one indispensable part...
...having started while at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Often dubbed "Dinosaur Jr. Jr.," the band grew under the tutelage of J. Mascis, a fellow UMass alum and backbone of Dinosaur Jr. The bands' sounds aren't too far apart, but with a few more years under their belt, Buffalo Tom may develop the sound in their own right. They have, at least, spread beyond college-rock listeners and have started to attract anyone, even violent, drunken old men, to the mosh...
Harvard comes into this weekend's tourney with the last five championships under its belt and the psychological edge that goes with such a streak...