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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, we feel that the donation has pushed the MAC in the right direction. The installation of new equipment has reminded us of other possible improvements, including opening the MAC earlier and installing air conditioning in the building. In October, MAC users will be able to make suggestions for further improvements. We applaud this gesture and hope that it bespeaks the true desire to equip the MAC so it can handle the number of users...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A First Step (Master) | 9/16/1997 | See Source »

...almost unrelenting lack of sympathy to the other point of view that is most vexing about the Thernstroms' book," writes Edley. "The authors seem focused on readers who already agree with them. What contribution does this make? Doesn't it simply equip partisans with juicy quotations to score points?" And the book begs the question: If progress really is so great, why don't blacks believe it? Even those blacks who are high achievers are bitter about the racism they face (as witnesses another compelling book, Ellis Cose's The Rage of a Privileged Class, published in 1994). A recent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THROWING THE BOOK AT RACE | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...have always paid a steep price for access to burger riches: they can operate no other businesses, they have no exclusive territories, and they generally take orders from headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill. Franchisees own nothing other than a 20-year agreement, renewable at the company's option, to equip and run a restaurant in return for 12.5% off the top in royalty and rent. (The rates can be higher for some sites.) They spend a minimum of 4% of sales for marketing. Last year McDonald's got $1.8 billion from its U.S. franchisees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MCDONALD'S: FALLEN ARCHES | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...Clinton or Blair speaking when the Labour leader says, "The countries that will achieve the highest rates of growth and employment in the new information age are those which make the investments in the new technologies and skills...and whose governments see their role as working with industry to equip people for change." The same similarities surface when Blair talks about "rights and duties going together." Or when he says he wants welfare to be "a hand up, not just a handout." Or when he goes on about charting a political path that "is between and ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUST LIKE BILL? | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...will cost $28 million to renovate Widener and equip it with the proper climate control system. But to date, the University has not raised any of this needed money. Administrators, including President Neil L. Rudenstine, recognize the problem and have vowed to fix it. Rudenstine said: "We'll find away because it has to be done...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Solve the Acid Paper Problem | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

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