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...well sashay your way through Mem Hall for a few minutes, just so you can have something to talk about with every Harvard student, Freshman and upperclassman alike: how bad the mixer is. Also, there will be many women from other schools, presumably bused in to offset the sex ratio. But the pursuit of drunkenness tonight will prove far more fruitful than the pursuit of happiness. Head downtown and explore some less rarified haunts...
THROUGH THE CELLOPHASE shrink-wrap window encasing his latest release, all atweed to offset a glaring urban background, Jackson Browne seems to have exchanged "the bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge." Hold Out is here in part tostatethat "the poet laureate of California rock" has made that trade and is living up to his promise to "be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender," and in part to entreat Browne's long-time idol, the mythical pure-of-heart to keep holding out against the compromises Browne himself has made. Both statement and plea...
Davis agreed, saying that unlike Harvard and other Ivy League colleges, most schools will not have funds available to offset the $50 loss in BEOG money. She said most schools would try to provide funds to students with the lowest incomes, leaving less money for middle-income students...
...estimated at $11.8 billion over 15 years-82.5 billion for the U.S. missiles, the remainder for four or possibly five new submarines and the warheads, all to be built in Britain. The U.S., it is understood, is offering special terms: part of the Tridents' expense will be offset by a U.S. purchase of British Rapier surface-to-air missiles at a cost of $370 million to guard American airbases in Britain...
...soon as the inflation figure was announced, Israelis pulled out pocket calculators and began computing the value of their bank accounts, and merchants began adjusting prices. Banks, retirement funds and other financial institutions are automatically required to adjust the value of savings accounts, pensions and life insurance policies to offset fully the losses caused by the cost of living increases. A person's bank balance, for example, is immediately raised in line with the previous month's inflation. Every three months, employers must add 80% of the last quarter's inflation to their workers' wages. Informally...