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...semiannual meeting, several wanted to slash prices in order to attract customers. Oil Minister Tam David-West of Nigeria, whose country has foreign debts of at least $22 billion and depends on oil for 95% of its export earnings, threatened to match North Sea competitors "barrel by barrel and cent by cent...
...abyss: prisoners, mental patients or that hapless segment that Avedon labels simply as "drifter." All of them, from secretaries to millworkers, live in a very different West from the pristine territories of the landscape photographers. Theirs is a place of trials and disappointments, and their faces specify every cent of the cost...
...approximately 6400 undergraduates at Harvard reveals that over $6800 was spent on distribution alone. (This sum does not take into account the graduate students who received the mailing.) Each packet contained over 60 pages of printed material. Even at an extremely conservative estimate of $0.32 per packet (one half cent per page) for printing costs, this adds up to a total of over $2000. Even if every undergraduate wished to view these reports (which seems highly unlikely; many students will no doubt just throw their packets away), it would only be necessary to distribute one copy to each room, rather...
Undergraduates make up 60 per cent of the service's clientele, while the other 40 per cent are graduate students. The college students are primarily out for a good time, while the graduate students tend to be looking for a lifetime commitment, according to Bock...
Just how cut-throat are these youthful entrepreneurs? Mann says, "You really don't have to invest a cent to join our club. Education and fun are important goals...