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Despite inflation, the planners expect to cut the overall Inauguration costs by one-fourth-from the roughly $4 million Nixon spent in 1973 to $3 million. Instead of asking private businesses to furnish automobiles and oil companies to donate free gasoline, Carter's aides are announcing that private donations up to $5,000 will be accepted to finance these and other expenses-a limitation meant to exclude undue influence from wealthy corporations. Initial financing will come mostly from a $500,000 advance from Pennsylvania's Franklin Mint on the sale of souvenir inaugural medals, bearing Carter...
...Rauschenberg was living in the middle of a junk-crammed environment?Manhattan?a place that every week threw away more artifacts than were made in a year in 18th century Paris. An afternoon's stroll could furnish him with a complete "palette" of things to make art with: cardboard cartons, striped police barriers, sea tar, a stuffed bird, a broken umbrella, a shaving mirror, grimy postcards. These relics were sorted out in his studio, glued to surfaces, punctuated with slathers of paint. They emerged as large-scale collages, to which Rauschenberg gave the name combines. At first they were relatively...
...eating, gift giving and the willful destruction of their own property. The more a man could part with, the greater his status. The prairies and the plains were once horizon-to-horizon bison. The animals were obliterated partly to feed railroad workers but mostly for sport or to furnish the rich with carriage robes and the novelty of nibbling on buffalo tongue. Great clouds of passenger pigeons were peeled from the sky with shotguns or simply captured by hand on their nightly roosts. The last of the species, once estimated to number 9 billion, died at the Cincinnati...
...people realize how far-reaching are the effects of the current emphasis on multiple-choice tests. These tests have become the dominant factor in educational research; they furnish the yardstick--indeed the very definition--of "progress...
...domestic U.S. market could not furnish the solution. The financial viability of the Tristar program ultimately depended upon Lockheed's success in selling the plan abroad. Furthermore, the success of the overseas sales effort increasingly appeared to depend upon Japan. For if the major Japanese international carrier, All Nippon Airlines, could be persuaded to purchase the Tristar, it would not only be a major sale--21 planes were sold in all for nearly $400 million--but it would be a prestige sale, placing the Tristar on a par with Boeing's 747 and McDonnell-Douglas's DC 10. As seen...