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Many said the University should plan better to avoid such problems next summer, when it tackles another, undecided chunk of its again physical plants for undergraduates...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Tempered Enthusiasm | 10/9/1982 | See Source »

...Board of Directors termed such a proposal "nonsense." Under the law, the Coop, as a cooperative society, pays no taxes on the profits it distributes back to members, only on the profits it makes from non-members, Thus, he said, if the Coop cuts the rebate down, a chunk of the money made would have to go to the government. And, he notes, that would mean Coop members would be sharing profits with non-members--something "antithetical to the whole cooperative effort...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: 100 Years of Tradition | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...this all. Uncle Sam is selling off prime property in the heart of New York City and on the outskirts of Philadelphia, a piece near the Las Vegas Strip and a chunk of Waikiki Beach. It is unloading Air Force bases, military ammunition plants, and dozens of dams and water projects. For those who might want to acquire apparently useless land for the simple satisfaction of owning it, the Government is offering? at bottom dollar, if necessary?watersheds, flood plains and deserts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land Sale of The Century | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...ENOUGH of this. Your proctor will do plenty of admonishing when you attend your REQUIRED MEETING on Sunday, September 12. Reserve a healthy chunk of time before study cards are due to enjoy the Course Catalogue. You didn't come to Harvard for intimate classes, fine food, or consistent weather. You came for this fat book and all it describes...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Harvard Thick and Thin | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...after the Reagan Administration took office, it canceled a joint effort with the Europeans to survey the sun's unexplored polar regions. The U.S. also dropped out of the race to intercept Halley's comet, slated to return in early 1986, leaving direct examination of this primordial chunk of matter to the Soviets, Europeans and Japanese. It placed on hold a plan to put a remote radar-mapping satellite in orbit around Venus, and has delayed until at least 1986 a complex scheme to station a permanent unmanned weather observatory high above the brightly colored clouds of Jupiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Singing the Blues at J.P.L | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

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