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...money each house saves will go toward a house supplement with information on such aspects of house life as the senior common room and tutor programs, Heinicke said. Savings in excess of the cost of this supplement will go to each house master's discretionary fund...
...well established. Shaffer himself has presented it, in such hugely successful plays as Equus (1973), Amadeus (1979) and Lettice and Lovage (1987). He is stagy, melodramatic, given to portentous evocations of myth, an obsessive juggler of the duality between head and heart, reason and inspiration, ordered restraint and exalted excess. Of course the same plays, viewed from another angle, make a strong case in Shaffer's favor. He is intensely theatrical, intellectually provocative, inventive with plot and setting despite the single-mindedness of his themes -- in short, entertaining and fascinating even at his most over...
Rightsizing. Restructuring. Downsizing. The terms are cold and unemotional. Yet the euphemisms of the early 1990s all mean the same thing: layoffs. Over the past five years, corporate America has been driven by a single-minded mission to gut itself of "excess workers." It was supposed to be the fastest and easiest way to cut business costs, be more competitive and raise profits -- or at least that's what many top executives thought...
Thank you, Harold. But I'd add that the old Bill Murray was pretty revelatory too. Who said, "The work of any pioneering artist first looks like excess, then reveals itself as precision"? Well, I guess I did, just now. But / as Nick the Lounge Singer on SNL and in a lot of his movies, Bill taught us that there was a magical, very American bliss to be achieved by failing in public and not realizing it. He was the soul of the showman in every CPA who's just had that third Scotch on the rocks...
...decade -- and suggested that drugmakers would oppose the Administration's forthcoming health-care reforms. The industry's earnings also came under attack; Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman of California last week unveiled a 354-page Office of Technology Assessment report that charged that drug firms raked in $2 billion of "excess profits" a year and lavished vast sums on "wasteful" campaigns to encourage doctors to prescribe pricey medications...