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Epps says he recognizes it's time to pare down the often ponderous race relations structures to deal efficiently with student group's complaints. "We hope to use the summer to continue planning," he said...
...desperate effort to pare down the debt, Fimpar, the Aga Khan's holding company, planned to raise $200 million on the Milan stock exchange. But the Gulf War scared off investors, and the plans had to be dropped. Finally, the Aga Khan hired Goldman Sachs last year to sell off some of Ciga's lesser hotels in hopes of raising roughly $175 million to repay loans and stanch losses. One of the few buyers that stepped forward was Situr, an Italian property group, but before a deal could be struck, Situr alleged that Ciga's books contained serious irregularities...
...fourth of them retirees living on fixed incomes, have three times in the past year turned down requests for additional increases -- most recently by a 2-to-1 ratio. Some of them want officials of their rural district to follow the example of other cash-strapped schools and pare programs. "No way" is the reply from district leaders, who four years ago temporarily cut art, music, field trips and some athletic programs, then shortened the school day by an hour. "It was devastating," says Kalkaska High principal Jerry Judge. "This was a much better year...
...pare away the exceptions, we might find a nugget of truth. Does our society tend to make women uncomfortable in an atmosphere that glorifies confrontation? Do cultural standards turn women away from reporting and, later, from leadership positions, which by their nature require a certain contentiousness? Do women shy away from Crimson editorial meetings--which are often heated and argumentative--for the same reason...
...these fuel-tax options were politically easy, we would have done them already," says Rafe Pomerance, a senior associate at the World Resources Institute. Some of the impact could be softened by measures like a cut in the stiff Social Security payroll tax. Even so, if Clinton hopes to pare down the deficit, he will have to persuade voters to share the pain and then stick to his guns against all the opponents that are mobilizing to fight whatever he puts forward...