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...than the law requires, it can sell the unused portion of the emissions it is allowed to another company that is having trouble meeting its standard. While the total reduction would be the same, both companies would cut costs: the seller because it would get extra money, and the buyer because it might be less expensive for it to purchase pollution rights than to make the required slash in emissions immediately...
Harvard has also acquired 65 wheelchairs for the four days of reunions and other events, says Purchasing Office buyer Robert L. Dwyer. He says several will be kept in Harvard Yard for emergencies, while the rest will be placed around campus...
...high fashion, betrayed her by "marrying a bad husband for economic security." A competitive child, she captained the basketball team and edited her high school yearbook. Her mother died when she was 18. To support herself, she went to work as a stock girl, eventually graduating to fashion buyer at Lord & Taylor. When Lear learned that her manic-depressive episodes, which she now controls with lithium, could have a genetic component, she began a search for her biological parents. She returned to the small Jewish orphanage, with its stacks of cribs and bunk beds ("My competitiveness comes from having...
...while I cooked," Bernard remembers. This was no home- kitchen production with towels stuffed under the door to contain the pungent odor of the process. This was a major manufacturing operation disguised as a beach party, using black-market chemicals to produce 100 lbs. of crank, presold to a buyer in Grants Pass, Ore., for $15,000 a lb. Almost a million net, even before the powder hit the streets, sold by the gram for nearly the same price as cocaine. A lesser cook chortles, "Those people in Oregon are taking everything we can make, and they pay a premium...
This information is then given to Carpenter and Philip R. Bauer '36, the other food buyer. Bauer, who works entirely out of his office, purchases food from all over the world, although most of it is produced in the U.S. Most of the fish and dairy products are produced in New England or New York...