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Dominguez added that the move was part of a series of decisions to scale back on planned international expansions, though he said the other cutbacks had non-financial motivations as well...
...Smith’s December request for 10 to 15 percent reductions in department and center budgets for the fiscal year beginning in July. In a recent State of the Library meeting, HCL head administrator Nancy M. Cline said that it would be hard to slash budgets through large-scale cuts of either fixed costs or personnel and collections budgets. Instead, library administrators appear to be looking to encourage structural efficiency as a means of wringing savings from their ledgers. “A simple solution is not in front of appear to be looking to encourage structural efficiency...
...Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, Mo., has a retrospective of mid-century modernist architect Eero Saarinen, who designed the iconic TWA terminal at JFK airport and, of course, St. Louis's Gateway Arch. "Shaping the Future" takes a look at the Finnish architect's work through full-scale mock-ups and a selection of drawings, models, photographs and films, through April 27. Washington University, Skinker and Forsyth Blvds., St. Louis...
...Journey to Mecca” are dialogue shots—closed in on Ibn and his companion—or utterly blank desert topography, which could basically be filmed anywhere. Viewers expecting to be overtaken by breathtaking Arabian vistas on a “Planet Earth” scale will be more than disappointed. They’ll be bored...
...strike established that the LTTE had become the first guerrilla organization in the world to have its own air force. These aren't fighter planes, however. They are light propeller planes reportedly put together from parts smuggled into the country. But they are enough to carry out small-scale bombing raids. "Even though the government claimed that the Tiger's air attacks inflicted little damage, the psychological advantage the LTTE has won has served to significantly boost the rebels' morale and could embolden them to step up attacks," wrote New Delhi-based defense analyst Animesh Roul on the website International...