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Vice President for Finance Ann E. Berman said the additional two percent raise will provide an extra $16 million, in an attempt to help schools offset a $89 million increase in benefits expenses last year...
Berman expressed concern that the University’s main revenue sources may wane, compounding the fiscal squeeze already facing Harvard. She said last year’s stellar endowment returns had helped to offset increased expenses. “Nobody likes to count on something like that,” she added, however...
...fair, euphoria over the ability to buy beer Sunday should not be directed toward this most recent repeal, but rather to previous loosening of restrictions. Not only have Sunday sales been permitted within 10 miles from state borders—a measure to offset disadvantages to Massachusetts-border stores facing competition from our liquor-liberated neighbors in New Hampshire and Vermont who allow their citizens to indulge Sunday cravings—but the state has permitted liquor sales on Sundays from Thanksgiving until New Years when the state feared it would lose too much revenue to neighbors during this lucrative...
...player the Crimson should try to exploit is Black Bears point guard Eric Dobson, who has offset his 7.0 assists average with a rather unimpressive 6.8 turnovers per game...
...Raster" print shop just outside the central Bulgarian town of Plovdiv looked like any other respectable business in the Balkans. A tidy blue awning shaded a picture window, and inside was a bank of desktop computers, stacks of CDs, some offset printers in the back. The proprietors turned out a creditable line of calendars, brochures and color advertisements, and developed a reputation for attention to detail. But, they allegedly had a sideline business. According to Bulgarian antifraud investigators, the unassuming shop was the source of one of the finest counterfeit €200 notes now in circulation...