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...letter, Smith wrote that the global economic downturn forced FAS to reexamine all of its spending, including the compensation costs that make up nearly half of the School's operating budget. He said that previous cost-cutting measures such as the early retirement program, salary freezes for faculty and exempt staff, limitations on new hiring, and offers of reduced hours did not achieve the necessary budget reductions...
...Olympics. It remains the best effort by a Peruvian team in Olympic sports - in any team sport - and the achievement catapulted its members to fame. Perez del Solar is one of two members of the 1988 team currently in Congress. Captain Cecilia Tait served in the previous 2001-2006 term. She was also inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Massachusetts a few years back. Despite the adulation of the volleyball team, it remains the preserve of women. Peruvian men don't play volleyball...
...tempting for companies to miss having a foothold in Iraq," says Tariq Shafiq, director of the London oil consultancy PetroLog & Associates, and a previous executive director of Iraq's National Oil Company who helped to draft Iraq's new national oil law after the US invasion in 2003. "Where else would any company go today to have access to a field that produces two million barrels per day? There is none...
...Given the richness of the gangster genre, with so many previous visions and sound tracks, how did you approach the challenge of making your own mark with Public Enemies...
...formalities of commemorative splendor and ostentation. Here, when one encounters a distinct lack of assured beautification, it does not seem for lack of intent to celebrate the object, or its meaning. Or perhaps it is because, apart from a lone sprig of daisies strewn by the plaque, previous devotees had placed plastic Bic pens and pencils by his name, maybe in the innocent and poignant hope that his brilliant literary genius might be conferred back to them...