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...impossible for workers to labor there would also disrupt production. Says a U.S. analyst: "With a shortfall of only 1 million bbl. of oil a day, now the price has gone to $35 ((from $18 before the invasion of Kuwait)). Imagine the impact of the loss of a big portion of Saudi Arabia's 7 million bbl. a day." Conceivably, the price could reach as high as $100, far more than enough to cause both a crippling recession, with widespread joblessness, and ruinous inflation throughout the industrial world. The U.S. would certainly retaliate with devastating bombing of Iraq. From Saddam...
...rebate, which represents a sizeable portion of the Coop's annual profits, has fallen steadily for the last several years. In 1989, students received a rebate equal to 7 percent of their total purchases. In 1988 the rate was 7.8 percent, and in 1987, the rebate rate was 9.5 percent...
...addition, the rebate was also lower because the Coop plans to reinvest a portion of its profits to revamp its aging infrastructure, Dans said...
Despite the obstacles, a significant number of students from each class choose to spend some portion of their college career away from Harvard. Three hundred and seventeen members of the Class of 1990 took time off during their time at the College, says Martha P. Leape, director of the Office of Career Services...
...undaunted by solitude or the prospect of tiny clusters of civilization tied by the endless reaches of shortgrass in the 10 states between the Rockies and the 98th meridian. The Great Plains form one-fifth of the land mass of the lower 48 states -- and an even greater portion of the nation's legend and romance. Sitting Bull warred and wept on the plains. General George Custer wandered there with the Seventh Cavalry, his pack of greyhounds, and his band playing the march Garry Owen, then galloped to his dreadful rite of immortality at Little Big Horn. Sixty million buffalo...