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ULTIMATELY, the place where funding discrepancies hit students most is in the pocket-book. Some houses charge dues and still ask for students to pay for select parties, such as winter and spring formals. Others charge no dues and no admission prices for the formal balls. Five houses charge residents anywhere from $4 to $20 to raise house funds, and five other houses recently considered but rejected charging house dues...
...with American consumers the benefits of the dollar's purchasing power abroad. Despite its recent downturn, the dollar is still worth 19% more against many foreign currencies than it averaged from 1980 to 1982. That should mean cheaper imports in the U.S., but many American distributors have decided to pocket the profits rather than lower their prices. Yves Saint Laurent's Opium perfume, for example, has climbed from $135 an oz. in 1980 to $165 an oz. today, although the cost of the perfume to the importer has simultaneously fallen by about...
...fourth quarter, Ken Tsunoda replaced Jacobs as the Cabot-North signal-caller and promptly completed a perfect pass to Paul (G.O.) Vallone at Lowell's 4-yd. line. After a Roper touchdown was called back because of a holding penalty, Tsunoda pump-faked, scrambled out of the pocket, and lofted a touchdown pass to Zurasky...
Kidder also provides bonuses: vest-pocket essays on architecture and the lumber business; insights into bidding, building techniques and the pleasures of physical labor. His builders are a proud bunch not given to "cob jobs," carpenters' jargon for sloppy work. Their praise is dispensed with the left hand, as in "perfect enough" or "good enough for Amherst." By this standard, Tracy Kidder's book is not too cobby...
...definition of an Arizona tenor as a coughing tubercular. In Georgia, an Arab, pronounced Ay-rab in the northern part of the state and slurred to Urb in the south, can mean an urchin, while for some Baltimoreans, an Ay-rab is a bookie who operates out of his pocket on the street. To a Missouri youngster, Boston can be a marbles game in which the shooter need not knuckle down, but to a Pacific Northwest Indian, a Boston was any white American. And in a black ghetto like Watts or Harlem, conk means to straighten a person's hair...