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...pretty much put in a hopeless situation," said Amherst undergraduate Sue Furbish of the Trustee's Committee on Student Life which is filing a report. "There is still a little bit of hope, but the general atmosphere on campus is that they are going to be abolished...
...Nova-Park Elysées, which sits on the site of the century-old Paris-Match building and retains its façades, cost about $45 million to furbish and furnish. It is largely the inspiration of René E. Hatt, 55, a beefy Swiss developer known to the hotel's 280 employees as Le Big Boss. Hatt, whose Nova-Park chain owns Switzerland's biggest hotel, in Zurich, also has hotels in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia and Cairo. This fall the chain will open its first U.S. hotel, in New York City; it will occupy the Gotham...
...initial Reagan cuts will admittedly produce a minor improvement. Wealthy families using low-interest loans to fatten stock portfolios or re-furbish yachts will have to look elsewhere for their loopholes. But the new restrictions will also force many middle-class students to use more expensive alternative loan programs, while at the same time not providing additional benefits for the poor. As a result, the Administration's 1982 plan will have a detrimental net effect: the type of school a person attends, or whether he enrolls at all, will depend more than before on how much money...
...This was compounded by Nixon's conviction that he faced a lifelong conspiracy of the old Establishment to destroy him. He grew increasingly convinced that I was needlessly trafficking with his enemies in the "Georgetown set" and at the same time was using my public relations skills to furbish my image and not his. Starting with the India-Pakistan crisis in 1971, the White House public relations machinery avoided few opportunities to cut me down to size...
Regarding your reference to the Furbish lousewort as a weed. Biologically, the Furbish lousewort is a native American. It is the Dickey Lincoln Dam that will be the weed, not the lousewort...