Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lindsay and Arthur Gruen '82, another member of the alliance, requested the meeting last week. Although the alliance has not taken a position on the matter, Lindsay said he will circulate an open letter later this week urging the University to drop its nuclear-related investments...
...Swift family in Washington D.C. yesterday refused to comment on the matter. "Her family is utterly terrified and feels she is in great danger," a person close to the family said yesterday...
...newspaper, the Shanghai Liberation Daily, warned: "A very small group of counterrevolutionaries has been poisoning people's minds. Those that should be arrested must be arrested. Those that should be sentenced must be sentenced. Those that should be killed must be killed. We cannot be softhearted in this matter...
...current crisis is not caused by reader neglect, but is simply a matter of money. Since 1969, the cost of books has soared by 106%. Libraries are funded chiefly by local governments and must compete for their share of revenue with life-and-death municipal services like police and fire departments. "The property tax is a killer," says Edward Chenevert, library director in Portland, Me. Complains Dale Perkins, 46, library director for California's San Luis Obispo County: "We are just one sixty-fifth of the county budget-right in there with mosquito abatement...
...Franklin County library has made available a computer bank of statewide job openings. Richmond has a sidewalk kiosk where browsers can check out bestsellers and paperbacks. "I used to be a real elitist," says Librarian Howard Smith. "But we're trying to get people to read at no matter what level." The Dallas public library lends games and dress patterns in low-income neighborhoods. Some libraries even lend gerbils and hamsters, as well as hedge trimmers and posthole diggers-a development that often upsets traditionalists. Sniffs Mrs. Chebie Bateman, library director for Columbus, Miss.: "I believe in furnishing...