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...Handbook for Students also devotes a page-and-a-half to a discourse on the evils of discrimination, including sexual discrimination. It expects students to "exhaust institutional routes for complaints before seeking legal redress under public law." Yet the University did not fulfil its moral obligation to fight discrimination by failing to endorse Lisa Schkolnick's legal complaint against the Fly Club when her options here were closed...
...dinner, one could sample a different Bangkok restaurant every night for 30 years and still not exhaust the city's repertoire. Nor are these mere holes-in-the-wall. Many are landscaped garden restaurants with pavilions strung with lights and lotus ponds at their center. Dinner at such a palace will cost perhaps $8 a person. As for postprandial appetites, they are taken care of in a night world as treacherously bewitching as any on earth -- one winking neon blur of bars and discos and imperial, four-story massage parlors...
...savings and loan associations are racked by troubles in the farm belt, depressed conditions in the oil patch and unwise real estate ventures all over the country. While the large majority are solidly in the black, the weakest institutions are in such bad shape that they threaten to exhaust the multibillion-dollar Government insurance funds that protect depositors. If that happens, taxpayers will have to come to the rescue. Federal regulators are confident they can clean up the mess before it overwhelms the financial system, but if the U.S. falls into a recession in the next year...
...been transformed from a test of muscle into one of will. "This is a war of attrition," says "Mahmoud," a Palestinian activist, explaining the growing use of fire bombs against the / Israeli military. "We know a few Molotovs are not going to liberate Palestine. But with them we can exhaust the Israelis before they can exhaust...
Most often the problem is poor ventilation. Sometimes the difficulty stems from design flaws. In some buildings, for example, air-intake ducts are built directly over loading docks; exhaust fumes from idling trucks are drawn in and circulated through work areas. During the energy crunch of the 1970s, conservation measures such as installing sealed windows, closing air-intake ducts and overinsulating roofs only made matters worse. As a result, most -- and at times all -- of the air in many office buildings is recirculated. "Without adequate dilution by fresh air, pollution levels build up," explains Robert Phalen, an environmental specialist...