Word: hards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrative improvement that has helped in the fight to eliminate deficits was a change in the way departments request new personnel. Five years ago, each department head would tramp into Rosovsky's office with strong arguments for small increases in staffing, arguments that were hard to refute or refuse. There was no way to pit them against each other or to put the proverbial big picture together. Under the revised system, each year at this time the department heads meet with Kaufmann and other financial officials, and plead their cases. Kaufmann says this set-up means that Rosovsky will...
...SHORT RANGE, the Faculty has "crawled out of a financial hole," as Kaufmann puts it. But inflation, as always, darkens the horizon, and the future looks worse, not better. "We assumed that if we worked hard to save money for four or five years we could begin to recover with the help of the national economy," Kaufmann says. "But here we sit looking at a 13 per cent inflation rate." He compares his position to a doctor who keeps running tests on a sick patient to discover what's wrong, and each new test fails to work, until he begins...
They won their season opener 2-0 over Bowdoin a week ago, and lost a hard-fought second game 1-0 to Springfield Tuesday...
WILLIAM STYRON looks at you from the back of the book jacket, a little mean perhaps, a little puffy from too much hard living, but secure, very secure, the security of reputation and seven-figure movie rights for Sophie's Choice. It is the Big Book, over 500 pages and therefore serious, Styron's first novel since he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for The Confessions of Nat Turner. Everyone wants to write a Big Book. Ask Norman Mailer...
...used up my credibility. Our pitch out here in the '50s was that this was a once-in-a-lifetime hard bite. We twisted some arms then. We'd say to a student who had had a scholarship, 'Look, Harvard helped you out, now you help Harvard out,'" he says...