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Business school administrators announced the shortened semesters, which will shrink the school year from nine to eight months, in September, when the first-year MBA students arrived...
Though the objects auctioned amounted to only 3.7% of Denver's total inventory, they ate up one-fifth of museum space and consumed one-fifth of its budget. Sharp's goal is to shrink the entire inventory a total of 20% in the next five years. "We're trying to bring the collection down to manageable proportions," he explains. "This has forced us to look in every corner. There are some things we had just forgotten that we had." It is a situation that most museums face. "Too many of them wanted to be mini-Mets," says Jay Cantor, Christie...
Even a Democrat-controlled, Al Gore-inspired Congress would shrink from passing draconian emissions-control measures. And the current Republican House and Senate are unlikely to consider such regulations no matter how many scientists are convinced that global warming is real. Other industrial nations probably won't do much better, and poor countries can't afford to try. A more realistic strategy, some scientists argue, is to spend what research money there is figuring out how best to deal with global warming when it comes. It's already too late, they say, to do much else...
...racing." It dashes through the offices of Mademoiselle and Vogue. It darts into the dress stores where she acquired the right coloration. It pauses for the dinner parties at which her cooking graduated from veal wrapped around Jones sausages to beef Wellington. Inevitably, it lands her in a shrink's office, where she tried to come to terms with the ghost of a "perfect" father who died when...
...agreement that established the Arctic Science Submarine Program is truly unique and valuable. It sponsors a series of annual cruises to the Arctic Ocean under the sea ice for civilian science, exploiting the endurance and flexibility of a nuclear submarine. Each participating agency has something to gain. As budgets shrink, costs rise and the quest for knowledge continues, the only answer is to cooperate! GEORGE B. NEWTON, Member Arctic Research Commission Arlington, Virginia...