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...will be disbursed to over 100 campus organizations. Without these generous funds from the UC many of these groups could not even exist, or they would not be able to plan as many events as they do now. If. White considers this appropriation "the waste of another large chunk of the [money] which the council controls this year," then I will personally give him the phone numbers of the heads of every student group that receives money from the UC so that he can substantiate this frivolous claim...
...myriad of hopeless concerts with talent imported from the Real World? These judiciously-organized events were all brought to you by the venerable council--and each event lost thousands of dollars of tuition money. If history is any guide, we can look forward to the waste of another large chunk of the $150,000 which the council controls this year...
...million is quite a bit of money. When the Charlotte Hornets recently announced that it was willing to stake this not insubstantial chunk of change on one Larry Johnson's ability to put an orange orb through a hoop, I, like many others, shook my head in dismay. After all, I've seen dogs who have been trained to do the same trick with their snouts, and their contracts only call for the occasional extra can of Alpo. And this Larry Johnson fellow, isn't he best known for dressing up as his own grandmother to somehow prove the superiority...
Whatever the reason, the first U.S. mission to Mars in nearly two decades, a $980 million attempt to study the Martian surface and atmosphere in detail and pave the way for later missions and human exploration, is lost in space. Gone with it is another chunk of NASA's eroding reputation for technological brilliance. This year alone, the agency has slipped its deadlines on 13 space- shuttle launches, forcing it to cut flights from the schedule. It failed, after multiple attempts, to free the stuck main antenna on the Galileo probe to Jupiter. And on the same day controllers lost...
...cable-TV mogul buys a chunk of Hollywood -- again...