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...savings to “University-wide contracts with vendor partners together with cost-conscious purchasing practices.” Meanwhile, the rate of growth of salary and wage costs slowed to 3 percent from the previous year’s 6 percent. The report expressed concern about relatively flat growth in funding for sponsored research, which consists of grants from outside groups like the National Institutes of Health. Sponsored revenue grew one percent this year after six percent growth last year.Vice President for finance Elizabeth Mora did not respond to requests for comment last night. —Staff...
...DeepStream's pliable digital sensors overcome that limitation. "Instead of being flat and planar, we can mold them into any imaginable shape or topology, so now you can get into very awkward and difficult spaces," says Crosier. Another advantage: the materials are resistant to hazards like high temperatures and toxins...
...point halftime lead by the Raiders (3-3) and managing to hold a nearly steady ten-point lead for the last nine minutes of the game. “The gym was pretty quiet,” said sophomore forward Evan Harris, “so we came out flat.” He added that Colgate’s Cottrell Court has always been a challenging venue for Harvard. “We really tried to execute in the second half,” he said. “We had to bring our own energy...
...sailors welcome their captain as a much-loved coach. Throughout the opera, Hill’s expression wavers between happiness and anxiety—fitting for the slightly-out-of-touch, nervous father of the desired Josephine.Forbess as Josephine is a wonderful soprano, but her character nonetheless falls flat in Act I—perhaps because it is difficult to distinguish her words as she sings. But Forbess comes to life in Act II, going beyond the cartoonish aspect of Gilbert and Sullivan to portray Josephine as a character with emotion and intelligence. The best performance of the evening comes...
...true strength of the Constitution has always been tensile - the taut, almost musically tuned cables that suspend and balance the executive, legislative and judicial branches against one another. But the business of war powers has, from the beginning, been something of a flat string. Article I specifically vests Congress with the authority to declare war, but Article II designates the President as commander in chief not only of the Army and the Navy, but of the militias of the several states. That's a whole lot of power explicitly given to one person, and a whole lot that...