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...while his bullhorn days have subsided, he remains Massachusetts Hall's day-to-day problem solver. His new vice-presidential responsibility of overseeing Harvard Real Estate (HRE), the controversial agency whose management of University property holdings has drawn flak from tenants in recent years, is only his most recent pinch-hitting duty...
...quarter of America's 2.4 million farmers are substantially in debt, and a fair share of them are in serious trouble. In the first ten months of the current fiscal year, there were nearly 7,000 farm failures. Even many secure and usually prosperous farmers are feeling the pinch. "You've heard farmers bitching all your life," says Chappel Sides, 53, a cotton, soybean and peanut farmer near Coffeeville, Miss. "But when an above-average farmer makes an above-average crop and loses a pile of money, you know something's wrong. We're just right...
...vinegar and oil, the oil and vinegar of the stars). Newman, a man for all seasonings who is not otherwise much of a culinary performer, has been brewing the au naturel dressing in his Connecticut cave for years and giving the bottles away as Christmas gifts. With a pinch of immodesty, he says he became "a prisoner of my own excellence." With the help of his chum A.E. Hotchner, 62, whose concoctions are usually literary (Papa Heming way), the actor is marketing the dressing in supermarkets around the country. The bottle, adorned with Newman's visage and the glint...
...years. Coop membership has climbed above 100,000, sales have risen to the $40 million range (and are steadily increasing), and patronage rebates are hovering near 10 percent a year. Despite some slips--most notably in the early '70s, when, according to present directors, bad management caused a financial pinch of low sales and rebates--the Coop is firmly entrenched and continues to grow...
...cost of the war is being felt here, not because the Iraqis are losing on the battlefield but because this nearly landlocked country is experiencing a severe economic pinch after 23 months of fighting. The vastly superior Iranian navy, which the Ayatullah Khomeini inherited from the late Shah, has effectively sealed off the vital Shatt al Arab waterway. With the exception of military hardware, which is flown in, Iraq's supplies must arrive by land routes from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Result: astronomical consumer prices. A quart bottle of drinking water costs $25. If you are desperate...