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Harvard's costs for undergraduates will rank as the highest in the Ivies, coming in just over Dartmouth's $14,050 and Yale's $13,950. However, MIT will cost $14,400, officials said...
Most attempts to reform Massachussetts voting laws--which rank amongst the strictest in the country--have not met with such success...
...Epstein said the report did not try to rank the Houses or focus particular attention on any one of the Houses. "For us it was a project in contemporary social history, not an explosive political questioning of Harvard...
...largest and seventh-largest companies. Steel officials in recent months have been predicting that the business was about to undergo a series of such mergers, which would reduce the number of major steel producers from eight to as few as three. Executives contend that by combining resources, fewer rank-and-file steelworkers and middle managers would be needed, excess capacity would be reduced, and spending for raw materials to produce steel would be lessened. That consolidation would make U.S. firms more efficient and better able to compete against foreign steelmakers, which have captured one-fifth of the American market. Officials...
Newcomers, on the other hand, must wait their turn with a patience that tries both talent and dreams. The top rank is tough to crack, for the edge always goes to the headliners. Tiffany Chin, who at 16 was competing brilliantly in her first Olympics, could bask in a strong showing while cheerfully accepting the virtual impossibility of a medal. She had finished twelfth in the compulsory figures, and even with a runaway victory in the free skating while others faltered badly, a silver medal was the best she could have won. Said Chin: "I skated good figures...