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...suspect the problem was a bit of everything, but I have to take most of the blame myself. The brunt of the problem lay with...
Because salaries and benefits make up almost 75 percent of the budget, and since the nonsalary items are mostly fixed (such as energy costs), teaching and other school employees, must bear the brunt of the cuts, said Oliver S. Brown, assistant superintendent for planning and management...
...SEEMS ODD that Yale's administration has not upped its offer to the striking clerical and technical workers there a cent since the two-month old strike began. The Yale corporation faces great and growing pressure from the thousands of faculty and students who bear that brunt of the strike but are nonetheless without a voice in settling the dispute. The union's case has received wide-spread coverage in the media, and the case they've made is a very strong one. Yet despite' forceful criticisms, Yale seems intent on starting down the public outrage...
Saudi Arabia, OPEC's biggest producer, took the brunt of the group's 1.5 million bbl.-per-day cutback. The Saudis agreed to reduce their output limit by 647,000 bbl. a day, to 4.4 million bbl. More important, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi Oil Minister, promised to trim production even further, if necessary, to hold the line on prices. Other OPEC members, except Nigeria and Iraq, grudgingly accepted reductions of about 9% each. Two non-OPEC oil producers, Egypt and Mexico, whose petroleum ministers attended some of last week's sessions as observers, promised...
...fashion shows. "They would say Cardin had presented 250 outfits, so I'd draw 350. Then I could say I did more than Cardin. After that I'd write my own articles about my collection, which were very positive." His grandmother-"my first fashion influence"-endured the brunt of his bolder experiments, which once included dyeing her gray hair purple. "She may," he laughs, "have been the first punk...