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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...championship team has to stake its season on ruining Yale's bid for a title, not exactly the stakes it was hoping for earlier this year. However, the Crimson's recent offensive inefficiency and single defensive deficiency--its tendency to give up large chunks of passing yards late--have cost it three winnable Ivy games...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blee-ve It! | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...those services and events cost money--Violent Femmes cost $22,500. The hotel ballroom for the First-Year Formal--which over 1,000 first-years attend--costs several thousand dollars. If we ever want to have an even more popular band and an event that rivals Penn's Spring Fling, we'll just have to find more money to do it with...

Author: By Noah Z. Seton, | Title: Term Bill Increase Essential | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...negotiated a deal with the administration whereby the College organizes transportation for thousands of students who will ride next week to Yale and thousands more who will ride the week after to the airport. These services are provided to the community at the lowest price that will cover their cost. The council doesn't run a profit from any of these events or services. If we want to hire a band and host an event that rivals other schools'--while continuing to provide the convenient and popular services such as shuttle buses--we will need a larger budget...

Author: By Noah Z. Seton, | Title: Term Bill Increase Essential | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

QUESTION 7: You are at a dinner meeting with some interested investors. As the meeting wraps up, you are asked exactly when you expect your firm to begin earning a profit. You respond by: A) Providing a concise cost-revenue analysis that avoids giving a specific answer; B) Pretending to choke on a piece of chicken bone; C) Pointing out that the profit motive is an ephemeral capitalist notion that will eventually give way to the triumph of modern socialism; D) Changing the subject to the number of clients that will be redirected to your Web page from porn sites...

Author: By Rich S. Lee, | Title: Regis Does IPO | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

...lives of its students--time, with the nature of SSI workers, they many not have before taking another job. Our first concern is safety, and so far SSI guards are doing the job; however, we worry if the mixed bag students have seen from their guards may cost us down the line...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: SSI Guards A Mixed Bag | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

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