Word: portering
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...spokesperson for Rep. John Porter (R-III.) said elimination of the grace period will amount to an added cost of $4 per month for students who have graduted...
...June, Ovitz, a.k.a. Hollywood's Most Powerful Man, had passed up a $250 million offer to run MCA. So the news that he would be Eisner's-or anyone's-No. 2 left observers giddy with admiration. "Disney now is not only the world's biggest entertainment company," says Porter Bibb, managing director of the brokerage house Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co.; "it is also the best-managed...
...just a few of the many alternatives to taxpayer funding. Let's pursue them. Our nation has thrived for most of its existence without federal intrusion into the arts and humanities. That tradition has produced a formidable cultural heritage--Mark Twain, Eugene O'Neill, George Gershwin, James Whistler, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, to name but a few. It is time to restore that tradition. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself...
Aung San Suu Kyi undoubtedly was Burma's most prominent political prisoner, but there are thousands more being held in jails there. No Burmese is exempt from being dragooned into acting as porter for soldiers, and for those in the rural and ethnic areas it has become a way of life. The release of Suu Kyi is a hopeful step in the political liberalization of Burma. In her the generals who rule the country have the best chance of coming to peace with the Burmese people. SAMUEL LIN Hong Kong...
Alexandra Lora and Judith Chaisiri, two summer school students who attended the discussion, said they found it interesting to see the contrasting viewpoints of Sharp, a Democrat, and Porter, a Republican, on the environmental issue...