Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...control supervisor for a public utility, Lenich shucked his $350-a-year health-club membership and takes daily walks instead. He and his wife Linda also trim costs by scissoring the Christmas cards they receive and making postcards from the unused parts. They buy most of their food in bulk and reuse their plastic sandwich bags. Patricia O'Leary, a bookkeeper from East Brunswick, New Jersey, has read 20 simple-living books and subscribes to three simplicity newsletters, which she says have helped her and her husband Daniel wipe out a $19,000 credit-card debt. "We're happier...
...understandable since most of Harvard's 150,000 objects are seldom displayed and then only for short periods. They are the prints and drawings, susceptible to light damage and therefore hidden away like family jewels in the Mongan Center on the ground floor of the Fogg. They constitute the bulk of the museums' collection and are the real treasures visitors must...
Rather than using remainings funds to subsidize the directorship, the bulk of the interest should be used to expand programs that have proven effective in encouraging excellence in writing. One example is the magazine Expose, which showcases examples of outstanding work done in expository writing classes. First-years generate more than 6,400 essays in expository writing, but only 10 to 15 pieces are recognized in the yearly issue of Expose. The Sosland gift could be used to increase the size of Expose or to fund publication each semester. Income from the endowment could also be used to establish additional...
...vast differences in accounting practices across the fiercely decentralized University complicate things further. In fact, information is so hard to centralize and collect that bulk purchasing is greatly complicated, costing the University thousands of dollars annually, says Vice President for Administration Sally H. Zeckhauser, who is on the ADP's executive committee...
...students in the University are invited to show up for the sessions, Traditionally, College students have made up the bulk of those who attended office hours, according to Harvard spokesperson Joe Wrinn...