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According to Director of UHS David S. Rosenthal ’59, the increases will help fund the year-old student prescription medication plan, pay for recent hires of mental health clinicians and offset the general rise in health care costs...
...best-run companies in the hemisphere, yet each side protests that the other doesn't play fair because it relies on taxpayer subsidies. Embraer says it needs government help to counter Bombardier's easier access to First World financing and technology; Bombardier says it has to have aid to offset Embraer's low Third World labor costs and cheap currency. The firms have put their World Trade Organization complaints on hold and will sit down this month to try to work out a settlement. As irritating as they are, the subsidies, which mostly take the form of government loans...
...Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition at Tufts University, says Curves' use of hydraulic resistance rather than actual weights allows users to exercise only when lifting, not when lowering. Heavin concurs but says the resulting reduction in muscle gain is, for Curves' mostly novice clientele, more than offset by greater safety, because most muscle injuries occur during the lowering phase of weight-bearing exercise. He gleaned this fact from Jack Wilmore, professor of physiology at Texas...
...Chinatown for decades. Similar accommodations are made regularly: East Boston has a ‘mitigation fund’ for the developmental and environmental harms that Logan Airport causes on a daily basis, and James M. Kelly, the City Councilor for South Boston effectively lobbied for mitigation funds to offset the hassles caused by the recent construction of the new convention center located in his district. It is a shame that Kelly has not moved to secure similar funding for Chinatown, also in his district...
...vacancy left by the absent faculty will be partially offset by a larger than normal new group of assistant professors, a contingent of visiting scholars and several confirmed and pending appointments of senior faculty...