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...Over the past few years, we've been more aggressive in trying to find out the reading lists for the Core Curriculum courses, because those have been the more widely attended courses," Albano says. "We've been able to get those books in, albeit in modest quantities since we don't have the mandate or space for that inventory...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Budgeting 101 | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

...lifetime-achievement medal, said the word Wolfe. He had just pricked A Man in Full in the New Yorker, calling its author "a talented, inventive, philosophical-minded journalist, coming into old age," who goes for broke on a novel that is just "entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form." At the podium, a smiling Updike read Wolfe's vivid if catty 1964 account of Updike receiving his first National Book Award: "He squinted at the light through his owl-eyed eyeglasses, then he ducked his head and his great thatchy medieval haircut toward his right shoulder." "Newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Elegant Execution | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...statistics indicate significant decreases in narcotics arrests, malicious destruction of property and larceny, while showing modest increases in robbery and burglary...

Author: By Christopher C. Pappas, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Crime Stats Show Thefts, Assaults Decreased | 11/25/1998 | See Source »

Prostitution, indecent exposure and disorderly conduct charges also showed modest decreases...

Author: By Christopher C. Pappas, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Crime Stats Show Thefts, Assaults Decreased | 11/25/1998 | See Source »

There are no mutual funds directed at this industry. To get a real piece of the action, you will have to delve into some relatively small individual stocks. About two dozen trade publicly. I suggest at least one from each of three categories. That provides some modest diversification. You will also have a better chance of seeing a big drug or supermarket firm buy out your company at a premium. Here are the companies that Wall Street analysts are most bullish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Invest In The Herbal-Remedy Boom | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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