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Parents also face an enormous volume of costs this week. Expenses for transportation, food and lodging even for only one night can easily exceed hundreds of dollars. Moreover, four years of heavy term bills will not necessarily end with this one-week bang. While some students will no longer be financially dependent on their parents next year, a large number will still be in school. Unfortunately, these Commencement costs are only voluntary so far as attendance at a son or daughter's college graduation is voluntary...
Jorgenson noted, for example, that the central administration's grants to FAS far exceed the Faculty's reciprocal contribution...
...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges in charges filed against Mitsubishi three weeks ago, in what may turn out to be the biggest federal sexual-harassment lawsuit in history. If the courts rule in favor of the EEOC, the total cost to Mitsubishi in compensatory and punitive damages could theoretically exceed $150 million. The company has also been hit with a class action on behalf of 29 women, which portrays the Mitsubishi plant as a misogynous mix of sexist Japanese management practice and American blue-collar, bully-boy machismo...
...which people are acquiring momentos and pieces of their lives certainly reinforces that impression. Part of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis estate is up for sale at New York's venerable Sotheby's auction house in a four-day marathon sale. Well into its second day, the sales have exceeded even the auctioneers wildest expectations: a walnut humidor, a gift to President Kennedy from the comedian Milton Berle that was expected to sell for $2,000 to $2,500 went for $574,500; $442,500 for an oak rocking chair used in the Kennedy White House; $48,875 for a Tiffany...
...restraining order lasts for 30 days, the costs will exceed one million dollars," Felter told the court...