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...When she became dean of Radcliffe, Faust’s first challenge was not scientific, but economic. The institute faced a budget shortfall in 2001 that forced Faust to slash several administrative positions, The Crimson reported at the time...
...House's Office of National Drug Control Policy estimates that opium production in Afghanistan, which not only provides 90% of the heroin consumed globally but also funds Taliban activities, rose 61% last year over 2005. Some 670 tons of heroin are expected to flood the market, and that should slash the street price of a kilo of Southwest Asian heroin, now about $90,000 in Los Angeles. Yet the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), which annually loses some 3% of its 5,000 agents to attrition, has a two-year hiring freeze because of budget cuts to U.S. programs...
...around 80,000 promising students and with more time we can tap into some of those students from those high schools that almost never send people our way,” he said. “It could make a real difference both in the academic quality and economic-slash-ethnic diversity of our class.” The admissions office is not sure how this new application process will affect applicant numbers. “Instead of 19,000 regular [decision applicants], we’ll have 23,000 or 24,000 overall applicants, I think, but who knows...
...long ago, if you wanted a convertible car you had to sacrifice a few things. Being able to carry on a conversation while racing down the highway, for starters . Staying warm in winter was another, since many ragtops could be drafty. Thieves and vandals could slash their way in. And there was always the prospect of having to do battle with the roof while attempting to raise it, usually just a few minutes into your trip, when the rains would come...
...address these issues head-on, not just because he is new both to Airbus and to the aerospace industry (he's a manufacturing expert from the French glass company Saint Gobain), but also because the company is facing its biggest crisis since its founding in 1970. The company has slashed its delivery schedule for the A380 from one plane in 2006 to zero, from nine planes in 2007 to one, and from 25 planes in 2008 to 13. That's a significant setback for the behemoth's main customers, including Emirates and Singapore Airlines, which now must revise their expansion...