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AFTER four years at Harvard, these concerns sound familiar. Critics of the College find similar faults. But I was being paid by the University to justify the system, at least enough to garner a donation and a modicum of alumni interest...
...garner support, Davis pledged to keep NWA in Minnesota, where it has 15,000 employees, and to leave the airline intact. But that hardly reassured the company's workers, who fear that a takeover could bring belt tightening and layoffs. To protect their interests, labor unions at Northwest are opening talks with Davis and other prospective buyers...
...adhere to the debt policy held by both the United States and the Western commercial banks, such as Citibank, debtor nations had to impose harsh austerity measures to garner capital. Austerity measures entail raising taxes and reducing expenditures, very often by slashing the budgets of state-owned industries, lowering the subsidies of government provided products and raising the prices of bus fares and other state-run services...
Leave it to the performer who is free from pressure to create surprises. Harvard will not be the odds-on favorite to garner the Ivy title, but improving on last year's fifth-place finish is a reasonable goal...
...national elections in 1990. As for the cocky Christian Democrats, they trailed their own 1985 performance by almost 9 percentage points, winding up with just 55 seats, the same number captured by their perennial rival, the Social Democratic Party. The Free Democrats fared so poorly that they failed to garner even a single seat, thus ending any hope of resurrecting the current coalition...