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...instance, do 90 pages elapse before a two-and-a-half page segment on women's ice hockey marks the first piece not to concentrate on male athletes...
...laboratories are also trying to arrest the disease before it gains a foothold in a larger segment of the population by developing vaccines which would help protect the body from infection. (See story below...
Henry, a first-year graduate student in Economics, called Epps's decision an administrative error. Excluding "one segment of the student population from the event served no real purpose in advancing an environment of free speech," Henry said...
...recent years, the endowment income has begun accounting for a lower proportion of the University's budget. As a result, tuition has risen and begun accounting for a larger segment of the budget. Over the last 10 years, HMC reinvested income on the endowment to to help offset the inflation rate, but at the same time University expenses were growing and outstripping the amount of endowment income allocated to the general budget. The endowment, which paid for 22 percent of the University's expenses in 1974, only funded 18 percent last year. Tuition increases above the rate of inflation have...
...Catholic Church's unwillingness to allow open discussion of homosexuality was furthered recently when it launched a successful campaign to pressure the producers of WBZ-TV Channel 4's "People Are Talking" program to cancel a scheduled segment dealing with the topic of lesbian nuns. In addition, the Cardinal has promoted anti-gay bigotry by publicly supporting the recently enacted Massachusetts Department of Social Service's blatantly discriminatory foster care policy which excludes lesbians, gays, single people and women who work outside the home from qualifying for foster placements...