Word: bu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BU Trombone Ensemble presents seasonal brass music including 16th century, contemporary and jazz works, conducted by Ronald Barron. 855 Comm Ave Monday...
...these days of depressed grain prices, many American farmers consider themselves lucky if they can cover their production costs. But one eastern Montana farmer, Gene Voss, did better-if on a small scale. With his winter wheat selling for less than $2 per bu. and costing $3.50 per bu. to produce, Voss proposed a barter deal to William Roesgen, editor of the Billings Gazette. "I believe wheat should be $6 per bu.," wrote Voss. "I would gladly bring you 9¼ bu. for one of your subscriptions...
...year, Roesgen accepted the offer as a way of dramatizing the farmers' plight. Then, sowing the seeds of a new kind of circulation campaign, he ran a front-page headline announcing that the paper would swap print for wheat at the federal support price of $3.05 per bu. (Meanwhile, the subscription price was raised to $61-or 20 bu. of wheat.) In ten days the Gazette had exchanged 100 new subscriptions for 2,000 bu. of wheat, which it stored in a parking lot next to the newspaper building and then sold for $2.10 per bu...
...Boston University (B.U.) Student Allocations Advisory Board voted Wednesday to recommend that the university fund "the bu exposure," a B.U. student newspaper that is currently involved in a dispute with the B.U. administration over editorial control...
Despite the loss, the Crimson's performance shouldn't hurt them in the New England Coaches' Poll, where they are locked in a three-way dogfight for the fourth spot and final playoff berth with BU and Dartmouth...