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...estimate includes the cost of equipment, supplies, and the services of Harvard and contracted personnel used in campus repairs, as well as over $20,000 in preparations for the storm. Campus officials, who expected that preparation costs would exceed $50,000, will receive a more thorough account of expenditures from the Facilities Maintenance Office on October...
...NOTEBOOK'S NOTEBOOK: If William & Mary scores 15 points or more Saturday, it will set a school record in the series...Harvard has picked off six passes this year. At that rate, the Crimson would exceed the school record of 25 in a season by five...Last season K.C. Smith led all Crimson tacklers with 79 total tackles. This year, Captain Brent Wilkinson already has 26. If he keeps that up, he'll have 130 by season's end...Santiago needs 723 yards to become the Crimson's fifth leading rusher of all time...White needs 503 yards to become...
...haggling went on through the night last week as Japan's top finance and defense officials debated a perennially sensitive question: whether or not to exceed an informal cap on military spending that since 1976 has been held to less than l% of the country's gross national product. Finally, the ministers agreed on what the government later called an "epochal" solution. They approved a five-year, $76 billion defense spending plan that would involve annual average outlays...
...price for this series of distractions will be paid on Capitol Hill, where the unresolved legislative agenda is a minefield of potential trouble. Reagan has threatened to veto appropriations bills emerging from Congress that exceed the spending limitations agreed upon in the anemic deficit- reduction package passed by Congress in early August. As many as 13 spending bills, including costly farmsubsidy legislation, could reach Reagan's desk. If the legislators were to override his veto on any of them, it would be the first such defeat of his presidency, further eroding his influence. Still, he seems ready to take...
...median age of the population reached 30.9, the oldest ever, and is expected to exceed 36 by the year 2000. People who fox-trotted to Tommy Dorsey now outnumber those who hip-hop to Cyndi Lauper; for the first time in history, there are more Americans over 65 than there are teenagers. Notes Karl Zinsmeister, an economic demographer at the American Enterprise Institute: "By the late 1980s, one-half of our households will be headed by baby boomers. One-fourth of our population will be elderly. These two groups will define our society for a very long time...