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...budget deficit. The dean proceeded to tighten belts across FAS—provoking a small outcry when he cut 10 staff positions at the Semitic Museum. He had nearly erased the deficit by 1996.Knowles returns to the deanship as FAS faces possible deficits yet again, resulting from a billion-dollar building boom and rapid growth in the Faculty’s ranks. The FAS Resources Committee said in January that the school could face a $100 million deficit in 2010 if it does not reel in spending, ramp up fundraising, or dip further into the endowment.In an interview Monday, Knowles...
Knowles returns to the deanship as FAS faces possible deficits yet again, resulting from a billion-dollar building boom and rapid growth in the Faculty’s ranks. The FAS Resources Committee said in January that the school could face a $100 million deficit in 2010 if it does not reel in spending, ramp up fundraising, or dip further into the endowment...
...resort town is dirt-cheap, but Cannes has been getting more expensive - cher, as the French say - through no fault of its own. The Euro, whose exchange rate five years ago was under a dollar, is now a pricey $1.28. Don't despair. You can find many an excellent dinner for less than $40. And your transportation budget, except for getting from the Nice airport to Cannes and back, is exactly zero. Every hotel is within walking distance from every screening and nearly every party. For the rare out-of-town soiree, you ride with the other press types...
...shoddy,” “nearly-fraudulent,” and “out of control.” The writer, Lucy M. Caldwell, begins by arguing that the American Cancer Society (ACS) spends “only 26 percent of its national multibillion-dollar budget on actual medical research.” The rest, she claims, is waste. Caldwell seems to be unaware that the cancer society does much more than fund research. For every dollar collected...
...million times since its October Web-only release, one of the most popular viral videos on the Internet today. Even for a company known for its winning, edgy marketing, that is a hat trick. By creating a youth-driven buzz so crucial to its leadership in the multibillion-dollar sneaker wars, Nike, based in Beaverton, Ore.the largest sporting-goods company in the world, with $14.7 billion in annual revenueshas kicked its $9.5 billion German rival, Adidas, in the shins...