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Mike was not alarmed by large campaign contributions. He understood that a satellite company needing a White House waiver to transfer technology to China might be generous to the Democratic National Committee and that a financial-services concern that wanted to squash a consumer-protection clause would feel inspired to support the campaign of Alfonse D'Amato, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. He wasn't opposed to the system; he was opposed to ethanol. He believed that using corn for anything but feeding people or livestock was against the laws of nature...
...first two assumptions made about the advent of TV were dead wrong: that it would bury radio and that it would be a threat to movies. From the start, TV has provided a generous showcase for other arts--radio performances and movies included. Millions of people who, in earlier centuries or even earlier decades of this century, would never have seen world-class ballets, operas, concerts or museum works of art have seen them on TV. Not quite the same as live, perhaps, but considerably better than nothing...
Instead of offering a generous new system of aid, an 80 percent yield may mean Harvard can avoid sweeping changes because "shouting distance" seems--at least for the moment--close enough...
...brain drain" is certainly a familiar concept to the folks at home. Nebraska has started giving their brightest students generous financial packages (like the ones the top football players get) in an attempt to keep them around for college, increasing the chances they will stay in the state permanently...
Munoz says Stanford was originally herpreferred pick, but it refused to budge on itsnot-generous-enough offer. When Munoz visitedHarvard Yard over Easter break, she fell in love.Her family sat down with financial aid officerSally E. Champagne in Byerly Hall to see if heraid offer could be raised...