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...library system in 1982 could only count on 36 percent of its book-buying budget coming from endowment, and the Faculty had to give a whopping 46 percent. During the same period, book costs have outstripped the Consumer Price Index by more than 80 percent, library salaries have fallen in real terms, and the need for preservation work has grown more desperate...
...question on each of issues is: How well will they serve to attract crucial swing voters? Each side can fairly well count on its core constituency: for Mondale, minorities, the poor, organized labor; for Reagan, religious fundamentalists, the well-to-do and conservatives of every stripe. The real battle is for the middle, in particular two key groups: the blue-collar middle class and the smaller but influential core of young professionals sometimes called Yuppies...
Wittkowski, who will collect his windfall in 20 annual installments of $2 million each, at first seemed unfazed. He said he planned to continue working ("If I quit, all I have to do is sit around and count my money") and promised to share his winnings with his brother, sister and father. "We want to stay just the way we are." But by the end of the press conference, the new millionaire said wearily, "I gotta go find a beer." After two days of talk shows and streams of visitors, he sought refuge farther afield. "He called me from...
...buying or selling stocks based on advance knowledge of the stories' likely impact on prices. At the time, Winans, 36, described his role in the scheme as "stupid" and "wrong." Last week the Justice Department contended that what he did was also criminal and brought a 61-count indictment for fraud and conspiracy against him and two alleged collaborators. The charges rely on an unusual and, to many journalists, perturbing legal theory: that Winans had a "duty" not only to his editors but to his readers to disclose his interests in the stocks he discussed...
...ovary are blocked with scar tissue, ironically the result of an intrauterine device (I.U.D.) she used for three years. Even if an egg did manage to become fertilized, the embryo might be rejected by her uterus, which has been deformed since birth. Richard has his own difficulties: his sperm count is 6.7 million per milliliter, considerably below the number ordinarily required for fertilization under normal conditions. Says Diana: "I never thought getting pregnant would be so difficult...