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State dental schools average about $2 million per year, Goldhaber said, adding that Harvard's $6 million endowment would have to be raised to about $40 million in order to earn that much interest. The Dental School, Harvard's smallest graduate school with only 16 students admitted each year, celebrates its 100th anniversary in July...
...Pannonian plain near Belgrade, a colony of gypsies dwells in a clot of squalor, surviving on what they earn from buying and selling goose feathers. Outstanding among them is an erotic, intemperate feather merchant named Bora, played by Bekim Fehmiu, a Yugoslav actor strongly reminiscent of Jean-Paul Belmondo. Endlessly indulging in wife-beating and mistress-bedding, Bora downs liters of wine and scatters his seed, his feathers and his future. As the film's principal character, he meanders from confined hovels to expansive farm fields, from rural barrooms to the streets of Belgrade. Wherever he travels, he witnesses...
...master of civic ceremony. Last week he redeemed a painful campaign promise to reduce city property taxes 20% by proposing a commuter tax-the first on the West Coast* which, if enacted, will net $14 million a year from San Francisco's 122,000 outside workers. They earn 50% of the city's $3 billion annual payroll, and heretofore have directly contributed not a penny toward the cost of city services...
...most profound point. The goal of crime prevention can be reached partly by attacks on crime-breeding social conditions, partly by creating more efficient police and courts. But also vital is a new concept of mutual reconciliation between convict and community: the outcast must be allowed to earn his way back and thereby learn to believe in himself...
...U.A.W. was not so agreeable when it came to contract talks cover ing its local at A.M.C.'s money-losing Kelvinator Division in Grand Rapids. At issue was the fact that Kelvinator's 3,100 appliance workers earn less than their auto-production counterparts. While the U.A.W. demanded parity, A.M.C. countered that the average wage at Kelvinator-$2.91 an hour-compares favorably with that earned by other appliance workers. When the impasse persisted, the union merely relayed the company's final offer to the Grand Rapids local without making any recommendation for or against ratification. The rank...