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...vast differences in accounting practices across the fiercely decentralized University complicate things further. In fact, information is so hard to centralize and collect that bulk purchasing is greatly complicated, costing the University thousands of dollars annually, says Vice President for Administration Sally H. Zeckhauser, who is on the ADP's executive committee...
...said, was the Consumer Price Index, or CPI. By simply subtracting a single percentage point from the index published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Moynihan declared, the Treasury would save $634 billion over the next 10 years, partly in reduced cost of living adjustments to people who collect entitlement checks. Moynihan's idea, in various forms, has long been bandied about by economists. But now it has caught the attention of both Democrats and Republicans. Both sides are heading for the Great Standoff of 1995 over the budget, with Republicans threatening to block an increase in the federal...
...sequestration. During that time, the Simpson 12 (plus two remaining alternates) have been subjected to something like sensory deprivation. Contact with family and friends has been limited to a nightly 15-minute phone call, monitored by sheriff's deputies, and the five-hour conjugal visits on Saturdays. The deputies collect the jurors' room keys each night and routinely search their belongings for diaries or other forbidden items. When a juror got permission to celebrate her wedding anniversary by having dinner with her husband in the hotel restaurant, two security guards watched over them throughout the meal...
Heaney, a 56-year-old native of Northern Ireland, will collect $1 million along with the recognition that comes with the prize...
...Bear hyperextends this motif. A creditor, Grigory (James O'Brien), visits the grieving maid, Elena (Mimi Huntington), to collect on a debt from her late fiancee--only to find she has no money. Inevitably the two turn to fighting each other as man and woman, the man swearing through his teeth that women are faithless and the spurned woman obviously holding a much stronger case...