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Businessmen, a class previously spared from Reagan's budget cuts, would feel the pinch under the President's new proposals. The budget would effectively extinguish the 32-year-old Small Business Administration, squeezing the availability of loans for start-up enterprises and snuffing out what some have called America's last bastion of middle-class entrepreneurship. The budget would end the SBA's general lending program, at a saving of $1.5 billion. Although thousands of fledgling businessmen have taken advantage of the SBA's $4 billion-a-year loan-guarantee program, there is a surprising dearth of support...
...blaze, whose cause has still nor been determined, was reported at 8:17 pm and took approximately 40 minutes to extinguish, said Edward Dudley, Cambridge Deputy Fire Chief...
...night during the winter of my father's sophomore year, a pair of freshmen put a match to a wonden cross in the north end of the Yard, behind Holworthy Hall. A crowd soon gathered around it, and while some of to them tried to extinguish the flames, others heckled a Black student who had the bad fortune to he walking past the scene, and shouted their disappointment when the fire finally went out. The two freshmen were eventually disciplined by the College and stated, in a public apology: "We honestly say that the incident was meant only...
...wondered how to reply. A new list of salient points began to form I recalled my father's tale of a classmate and fellow resident of Massachusetts Hall in 1927-28 who, when irritated by the glare of a bare lightbulb burning over the entrance to Harvard Hall, would extinguish the light with a carefully placed shot from an air gun he kept in his room. Or another parental story of the pandemonium occasioned when someone put Christmas light flashers in all the Yard lanterns. It seems that the "Yard cops" (now University Police) had, in the days before radios...
University and state health officials immediately took air samples and determined that no hazard was apparent, and the water used to extinguish the fire was disposed of under proper procedures for hazardous wastes, said Gari T. Gatwood, safety engineer in the University Health Services, adding that "alcohol, wood, and some non-hazardous solutions were the only things that burned...