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Kopple is tough. In Harlan County she carried two pistols, a .45 and a .38, and slept on the floor because strikebreakers were liable to machine gun your house. She's also a good businesswoman--Harlan County cost $300,000 to make and she scrounged it from wherever she could. "When I'd run out of money I'd come back to New York and take whatever job I could, editing, sound, until I got enough to go back," she says. Her uncle is Murray Burnett, who wrote a play called Rick's Place, which later became Casablanca, starring Humphrey...
When CHUL considered in February 1976 a similar proposal to limit the number of Houses serving full breakfasts as a potential cost-cutting device, students and workers objected virulently to the inconvenience and loss of jobs the change would have caused. In defeating the measure by a vote of 20-2, the committee requested that the Food Services department "look into the possibility of opening the Freshman Union on weekends," but CHUL in no way indicated that the re-opening of the Union should necessitate any undesirable changes in the breakfast service offered by the Houses...
...exhibit shows how sculpture created from very simple materials can portray complex ideas, he said, adding that the large sculpture cost only...
Although this action is being taken in order to defray the increased cost of opening the Union for weekend dining, it is doubtful that such a comprehensive dining plan is consistent with the best intersts and wishes of the student body. Last year, CHUL overwhelmingly defeated a proposal to institute a continental breakfast plan in the majority of the Houses. There has also been a lack of evidence indicating that students are willing to bear increased board costs that would be necessitated by the opening of the Union on weekends...
Could Quebec survive economically as a separate nation? The answer to this question depends largely on the person who is quoting the statistics. Belonging to the Confederation cost Quebec 9 billion dollars between 1965 and 1975, according to Parti Quebecois statistics. Federal politicians prefer to use the year 1976 as an example. In that year, they say, Quebec received from the federal government $3 billion more than it contributed. Of course, separatists must also consider the costs they would incur if they were to form an independent nation. Such responsibilities as maintenance of foreign embassies and defense bite heavily into...