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...Byzantine manner of Harvard finances, the Faculty needed the surplus to repay a loan from something called the Montague Fund, a pot of money that the Corporation controls and lent part of it to the Faculty for the purchase of storm windows...
...admitted, with a full scholarship waiting for him when he was released; Irons still had more than a year to serve on his sentence. A few months later Zinn sent Irons a copy of his book Disobedience and Democracy. Characteristically, he didn't notice the dedication until he lent the book to a friend, who pointed out the Zinn had dedicated it to Irons...
Even with the long-sought federal aid, New York has not completely shed its troubles. Scarcely is one insolvent agency rescued than another pops up. Largely because it has lent so much to the city, New York State has a tough time borrowing money. Four state agencies, financed by the dubious "moral obligation" bonds, are in danger of default. If they cannot repay the $1.5 billion they owe over the next three months, they will become another financial drain on the hard-pressed state. To avert default, David Rockefeller, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, said federal aid might have...
...tired of being diddled," sputtered Manhattan's Democratic Congressman Edward Koch; "Ford has bled us to death." New York State University students held a rally at the U.S. Capitol to drum up support for aid to the city; New York Congresswomen Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm and Elizabeth Holtzman lent their voices to the cause. The New York Daily News, a longtime supporter of fiscal conservatism, berated Ford for "tantalizing us in a cold-blooded game of cat and mouse." Said a top G.O.P. congressional leader: "Ford was right at the start. If he didn't hang tough...
...CLOSE friend who was diagnosed a few weeks ago as having arthritis in her knees. This, compounded with her ulcer, her bursitis and her migraine headaches began to make her feel as though she would be nothing but a mass of decaying ectoplasm by the age of 40. I lent her this book, and in the depths of her depression she opened it and immediately began to howl with laughter. The cartoon she first turned to was by Ross: a football player runs towards a touchdown, shouting to the cheering crowd "Hey, fans! I've got a separated shoulder...