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...time" at the end of the summer, as the College's opening date approached. "We took care of the glaring deficiencies, but if there was a slight blemish on the wall, we let it go," he adds. However, even with the jump in beginning and the determination not to skimp on quality, days will continue to begin with early morning construction clatter--at least at Adams and Claverly--until at least December, officials anticipate...
When he was still in high school, Eicher hitchhiked from his home in Lindau, on Lake Constance, into Munich to catch a Dizzy Gillespie concert, and a few years later, on scholarship to the august Berlin Academy of Music, he lived on yogurt so he would not have to skimp on his record collection. Production-assistant jobs around various Munich recording studios kept him in curds and vinyl until he met up with Karl Egger, a burly purveyor of discount audio and records. Egger suggested to Eicher that they record displaced American jazzmen who had fled the rock-dominated music...
...Church stumped the pit heads from Springfield, Ill., to Pittsburgh to push the pact, the union rebuffed it by a vote of more than 2 to 1. Many members argued that provisions in the contract gave mine operators power to lease coal property to nonunion companies as well as skimp on contributions to pension funds. On the other hand, industry officials seemed to feel that the rejection simply reflected the union's weakening grasp its members. Said one: "Facts had nothing to do with it. Rationality went out the window. What developed was emotion, suspicion and misinformation. It just...
With people starving throughout the world, I fail to understand how the U.S. can afford to sell huge quantities of wheat to the Soviet Union so that the Communists can continue to skimp on their agricultural infrastructure in favor of weapons production. Napoleon said it: "An army travels on its stomach." If the Soviets are hungry, let them eat guns...
...Master of true and fictive science, the autobiographer omits few details of his daily life, recollecting conversations with editors, wrangles with professors and later, when he was a professor himself (he taught biochemistry at the Boston University School of Medicine for two decades), with his employers. Nor does he skimp on such intimate details as the site and sound of his introduction to extra marital sex. "What it amounts to is that she seduced me," writes Asimov in apparent amazement. "I just followed along, with my teeth more or less chattering, and not out of passion...