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Williams, who helps with the official Harvard greeting to new faculty, says that despite the fact that Harvard faculty members come from many nations, the people who have the hardest time adjusting to Cambridge are the ones that come from other parts of the United States...
Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn has accompanied the Pope on 16 of his voyages abroad and found the current one the hardest to cover, because of the very tight security surrounding the Pope in Central America. But Wynn thinks that because of the strains in Central American church-state relations, this papal trip may ultimately rank among John Paul's most important. "At one time," he says, "I assumed that if the Pope traveled too often, his trips would lose their news impact. Somehow, the trips are never routine." This is why John Paul makes his sixth appearance...
...banks claim that withholding will cost them millions of dollars in bookkeeping costs. New York's Manufacturers Hanover, for instance, figures the initial expense at $3 million. Smaller banks, which have fought the hardest for repeal, say their cost per account would be higher because they have fewer depositors to share the expenses. Bankers contend that only a fraction of the outlay can be recovered on the "float," the interest banks can collect on withheld funds before the money is passed along...
Dukakis's appointment of the trio to state positions is both an honor and a burden for the Kennedy School. "No one can ever take the place of Ira, Manny or Nick," Executive Dean Hale Champion says, although we're trying our hardest to find replacements." Champion emphasizes that two of the three who left are administrators rather then faculty, so that the loss to the teaching staff is not so great as some accounts made it out to be. For the time being, he added, Mitropoulos's and Jackson's duties are being divided among remaining administrators...
Budget's challenge hit hardest at No. 2. Despite years of "trying harder," Avis saw its market share drop from 32% in 1973 to a low of about 23% last March far behind the 39% claimed by Hertz. Avis showed a record $73 million profit in 1979, but a $35 million loss for the fiscal year that ended last June...