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...crown is also Radcliffe’s second national championship, the first occurring in 1973, and marks a drastic improvement over the Black and White’s 11th-place finish in the NCAAs last year...
...stop short of speculating that Lewis’ departure reflects a rise of anti-athletic sentiment in the University administration. But many also agree that athletes are losing one of their biggest supporters at the moment when administrators in the College and around the Ivy League are considering potentially drastic changes to academic standards, forced rest time and a reduction in the number of admitted recruits...
...lowered consumer prices—they are pocketing the difference. According to Nestor Osorio, the executive director of the International Coffee Organization, in the last decade, the major coffee companies’ revenues have doubled, while the earnings of ordinary coffee farmers have been slashed by two-thirds. This drastic fall in prices has hurt thousands of small coffee producers in Latin America and has perpetuated poverty and hardship among the farmers and their families...
...short run its about finding someone to talk to...and getting through the moment safely. If the urges are more immediately drastic, you might need to find a safe place to be,” she said. “In the longer one, if someone has a chronic episode of suicidal urges, in the context of good therapy [one can] talk about where the urge comes from...
...severe budget problems, that force is about to start shrinking. TSA chief Admiral James Loy told Congress recently that 3,000 airport-screener positions would be cut by June 1. But sources tell TIME that a TSA task force has been working since mid-March on even more drastic spending-cut options; a source estimates that the agency could be as much as $1 billion over its 2003 budget of $5.15 billion. One possibility: unpaid furloughs of more than a week this year for all TSA employees. The TSA hopes to release a plan this week describing how the screener...