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...drop-off? In essence, because she was bombarded. Milhollin's 202 saves last year were the most in Harvard history--Horwath's and Romano's youth showed...
...proposed Boston pickup site is KenmoreSquare, but additional spots could includeBrighton St. or Boylston St., Schmitt said. And upto two more Harvard drop-off sites could be addedto the current Quad, Yard and Quincy Houselocations...
When all the benefit slashing is over, who picks up where government leaves off? Many private charities that focus on the needy report dangerous signs of slippage in donations. At food banks across the country, there has been a sizable drop-off. At the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, for example, this year's funding drive brought in $450,000, a decline of $70,000 from 1993. In Toledo, Ohio, the number of families asking for emergency food baskets increased 10%. Donations? Down by almost half. Food baskets that used to include whole turkeys now provide turkey parts and surplus...
...renewed flood of refugees that Castro had let loose was heading toward a dead end. The White House had hoped its decision to consign the fugitives indefinitely to the bleak tent cities at Guantanamo would discourage the balseros from pushing off into the Straits of Florida. But a drop-off during the final weekend in August was caused merely by foul weather; clearing skies and lower waves tempted so many rafters into the water last week that U.S. vessels were again picking up more than 2,000 a day. Though Panama pledged to take some refugees off Washington's hands...
...rethink basic Cuban policy -- or their lack of one. The flood of refugees could slow to manageable proportions. After almost 6,500 Cubans were plucked from the waters on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, the Thursday-Friday total dropped to a bit more than 2,000. But the drop-off may have resulted only from the heavy rain, high winds and stormy waters that threatened to swamp the pitifully unseaworthy rafts before they could reach the picket line of more than 70 U.S. Coast Guard and Navy vessels patrolling beyond the 12-mile territorial limit off Cuba's northern coast...