Word: booklet
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Harvard tries to give prospective students an accurate picture of college costs and financial aid, Seamus P. Malin, director of financial aid, said yesterday. He added that the introductory booklet that all prospective students receive contains estimates of costs and financial aid packages...
...gone 0-4 at Lincoln Suds, but whereas you would no doubt take this fact and hide it under your SAT instruction booklet, Rand talks freely of the path upon which he skied into Cambridge, of the April morning in '75 when he received four letters in the mail--from Harvard, Bowdoin, Vermont and Colorado College--and they all said "No." As in "We are sorry to inform you that we are unable to offer you a place in next year's freshman class...
...Softening. Stevens officials rarely talk to the press, but this week they will send stockholders a booklet defending their labor policies. Among other things, it accuses the union of employing violence in some organizing campaigns, claims that Stevens has a good record in hiring and promoting blacks and other minorities (23% of its work force) and women (42%), and says that Stevens has raised wages an average of 7% in each of the past ten years, to $3.98 an hour now. That is competitive with the rest of the industry, but below the unionized wage scales in some nontextile factories...
...take place in June because, explains a palace spokesman, "February is no time to conduct a celebration." The summer jubilee events will include parades, river pageants, bonfires and visits by the Queen to nearly every corner of the British Isles. The British Tourist Authority has issued a 32-page booklet listing scores of 25th-anniversary events before and after the national thanksgiving service at St. Paul's Cathedral on June 7. Even London's transit authority is getting into the spirit: a fleet of 25 silver-painted double-decker buses will tool around the city...
Among Christians, a group of women theologians and scholars appointed by the National Council of Churches, an umbrella organization for Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches, recently produced a booklet called The Liberating Word (Westminster Press; $3.95). It argues that the Bible's divine message is encrusted with nondivine notions of male dominance that the biblical authors drew from their ancient cultures, not from religious inspiration. The 96-page booklet urges today's readers, clergy as well as laity, to reinterpret the Bible accordingly...