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...Army has already taken several steps to stretch the strapped forces. It has kept units in Iraq beyond the one year that the Army originally pledged that they would be there and has tapped into the ranks of reservists and retirees to bulk up the overall Army force from 480,000 to 640,000. Now it wants to send crack units from California's National Training Center and Louisiana's Joint Readiness Training Center to Iraq, which some fear could hurt prewar training at home...
Robert E. Kaufmann, associate dean for finances, said that the bulk of the grant would go toward enlarging the junior faculty, primarily in the humanities, to meet the special needs of the Core Curriculum...
Answering these questions has been difficult because, unlike the bulk of my Kennedy School classmates—some of whom are younger than me by four decades—I did not come to KSG to burnish existing skills to do my current job better, nor to learn new skills in order to break from the past and embark on a new career...
With U.S. Office Products, Ledecky proposed to buy up a number of smaller office supply firms to leverage bulk purchasing for profit. He contacted 100 firms. Ninety-five said no, he recalls...
...than twice the budget it has now—and, somehow, council insiders convinced the student body to go along with the plan in an April referendum. After a contentious campaign, undergraduates voted to increase the Student Activities Fee—an optional termbill charge that makes up the bulk of the council’s revenue—by an unprecedented and excessive 114 percent. Undergraduate voters refused, however, to make the fee mandatory on student termbills...