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Clinton hopes to ease the money crunch by transferring as much as $30 billion during the next four years from the Pentagon's research budget to civilian science and technology. But faced with an annual federal budget deficit of about $300 billion, the new President cannot support basic research in...
But usually requests for the Harvard insignia aren't so exotic, says Brinton. Often stores wish to sell clothing, school products or household items with the official Harvard stamp on them. These types of requests are generally approved, she says.
"Some of you think you've come to a circus to watch a dancing bear," said the moderator cynically. Perhaps some had, but Malcolm X was no dancing bear, no exotic specimen of a Near-Eastern religion, no man to be clinically observed. --Benjamin W. Heineman '65
2 a.m., Philadelphia: Bliss, rapture. Four (count them) hours in the Warwick Hotel to indulge in exotic luxuries like taking a shower or sleeping on a bed.
. Ask Michael Jackson to set up an exotic animal petting zoo in the White House basement.