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...said the filling currently under way is expected to cost between $10,000 and $15,000. "To get rid of the whole marshy area-assuming it was necessary for safety and none of us think it's necessary-would have cost between $80,000 and $100,000," he stated...
...decrease expenses or increase income, the House system is dead," Leahy added. He denied that the new system would bring Harvard closer to converting the Houses to dormitories. However, a resident tutor said yesterday, "It's just another step to getting rid of the Houses. If they want to save money, they should eliminate the waste at the Food Services...
...most dramatic instance of Judd's rejection of hierarchy-and it is hard to remember how radical it was, since every art student does it now-was his decision to get rid of the pedestal or base on which sculpture traditionally stood, and put the things straight on the floor or the wall. This amounted to a declaration that sculpture was not imagery, but simply another thing in a world of things...
...think we are ever going to have a leader who comes down-I'm using this advisedly because it is totally impossible for black people to have one leader-King was assigned to us by the white power structure, and we took him. We took Malcolm. And they got rid of Malcolm and we were left with King and several other lesser deities. But I don't think we'll ever see a leader assigned to us again from that route of publicity . . . because we've learned that when leaders are bred in the fashion of King and Malcolm...
...four countries was to use upward currency movement to get rid of excess dollars, which were aggravating problems of domestic inflation...