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...opposition means that six councilors instead of a straight majority of five will have to favor each addition to the budget. Four of the additions, totalling more than $200,000, passed the finance committee with six or more votes last night, indicating that the final budget is likely to exceed...
Following last year's unprecedented increase in the number of students accepting admission, Harvard admitted about 100 fewer students than last year. Therefore, despite the projected yield increase, Harvard will probably only slightly exceed its desired class size--about 1590 residents--for next year, Fitzsimmons said...
Auto industry layoffs may soon exceed 250,000, which badly hurts such auto-dependent cities as Detroit, where unemployment has already reached 24%. The current downturn is reminiscent of 1927, when Henry Ford helped push the country's economy into a slump by halting all Ford output for five months, as he switched production from the Model T to the Model A. Says United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser: "The rest of America may be having a recession. But autoworkers are having a depression...
Should firms accept reduced profits in order to spend much more to control pollution and improve safety? Yes, if the investment produces demonstrable results at a reasonable cost; but no, if the costs far exceed any possible benefits or place an oppressive burden on the company...
...added jumping jacks, jogging along the exterior of the cells and situps. Things were going very well, too well, I decided. I needed more stress to bring my will to maximum power. I turned to my old reliable method of ordeal by fire. This test would have to exceed all others in destruction of tissue and time of severe pain...