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Client Services Manager John Mitch of the Harvard News Office says that the number of visitors taking official University tours--a tiny fraction of the actual tourist load--climbs sharply in the summer, with six to eight 40-person tours on an average...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GET ON THE BUS! | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...spectacular performance and that's recognized in the compensation," said James H. Rowe III '73, vice president of government, community and public affairs. "I'm told by [Meyer] that the portfolio managers would be compensated far better on Wall Street, so they're getting literally a fraction of what they would if they joined their colleagues elsewhere...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade and Adam S. Hickey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Fund Investors Earn Record Salaries | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

Number of homes as a fraction of a Seinfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Nov. 17, 1997 | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...district must petition if it is dissatisfied with its representative. After that, turnout in the new election must exceed one-half of the district, and two-thirds of voters must wish to terminate that member's term. This is ridiculous. Make recall possible by decreasing the initial petition fraction and by decreasing the election turnout number to the percentage of the House which voted in the initial election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council: Remember Your Reforms | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

...federal deficit has shrunk to $22.6 billion, the lowest since 1974. While Wall Street screamed, President Clinton was before a benign crowd at the Democratic Leadership Council, proudly bearing the news that uncomfortable first-term taxes and a chest-beating economy had driven the number down to a fraction of what even administration officials had predicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUESDAY: And Now the Good News ... | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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