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Faculty members have in the past considered ways to compensate for the collection's rapid growth rate, currently at 120000 volumes per year. In 1989, a fierce Faculty debate erupted over the construction of the Inn at Harvard on a plot of land that could have held Harvard's next openstack library...
...Angeles Committee, sought to persuade Japanese as well as U.S. companies to re-enter the sadly charred inner city, units of the 10,000 U.S. troops that had quelled the riots gradually withdrew. Army and Marine Corps regulars pulled out, on the proviso that the Marines would maintain a "rapid reaction" force capable of returning to the streets on three hours' notice. Some National Guard units also started to withdraw, leaving 6,000 Guardsmen still on patrol...
According to its stewards, Aeneas is now one ofthe largest private investment companies in thecountry. Its rapid development and burgeoningpocketbook have earned the almost universaladmiration of industry experts. Having watched itperform, other universities, once reluctant tomake high risk investments with their endowments,have abandoned their fears and followed HMC'slead...
...central conundrum confronting designers was this: how to make a telescope mirror that could hold its shape against gravitational sag and gusting winds yet retain the capacity to make rapid adjustments to fluctuating temperatures. As mirror size increases, these two requirements begin to dictate different, and quickly contradictory, solutions. Very thick mirrors resist physical deformation extremely well, but because they retain so much heat, they tend to generate shimmering currents in the cold night air that play havoc with astronomers' observations. Very thin mirrors, on the other hand, have ideal thermal properties but a daunting physical handicap: as the telescope...
Women who are poor are especially hard hit. They can often use up the money they have, traveling around the country, in a desperate attempt to find a doctor willing to perform an abortion. The number of doctors who refuse to perform abortions is rising at a rapid rate, making it increasingly difficult for women with limited savings to find one before it is too late...