Word: go
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justice Department's considerable expenses, the water district's board has spent $980,000 on legal fees and expects to dole out at least $175,000 more a month. Yet a majority of board members seem as recalcitrant as the farmers. "If ((Lehtinen)) wants to fight, let's go ahead," said board member Doran Jason at one meeting. "There has to be a change," counters Nathaniel P. Reed, a former top Interior official who once served on the water district's board. "If sugar doesn't agree to the plan, the environmental community will go...
...conservatives have seized on the Russians' plight to justify a crackdown on the nationalist movements. News reports in the capital deliver a crude subtext: ethnic Russians are the victims of nationalist extremists. Politburo members like Victor Chebrikov, former KGB chief, thunder that those whipping up ethnic strife "should not go unpunished, no matter what flags they raise and what brightly colored national costumes they wear...
...Kenner's father, a train conductor, must now pay $6,000 out of pocket to send his daughter to school this year -- $2,000 more than in 1987. To help make ends meet, her mother recently took a job as a data processor. "I told my parents I'd go somewhere else," Kenner says, "but they wanted me to stay...
...Harvard or Yale degree. "It's Chivas Regal pricing," says Kalman Chany, president of Campus Consultants Inc., a Manhattan-based financial-aid consulting firm. "The most selective schools can afford to charge what they want because they've got lines out the door of people who want to go there...
...they cite soaring costs for building construction and maintenance; salary-inflating battles to woo and keep top-flight faculty members, especially in science and business; and the dizzying price of keeping up with technology, ranging from computerized card catalogs to the latest in lab paraphernalia. Hardware and faculty often go hand in hand: when Duke lured physicist John Madey away from Stanford, it promised to build a lab for his free-electron laser research. Cost: $5 million...