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...University were to lose its patrollers, it would mean more than spending the night in the hallway outside your locked room. It would mean a sluggish response when a law student is stabbed in the Square. It would mean that the brawl earlier this month in Eliot and Kirkland Houses could have turned into a full-blown melee, with greater violence and injuries. It would mean a crippling of Harvard's ability to respond in the event of any crime, any emergency...
...worried about is quantity. Since the heady years of heavy champagne consumption in the late '80s, sales have dropped dramatically, and profits with them. In 1989, 249 million bottles were sold; by 1992 the number had slumped to just over 214 million. Part of the problem is cyclical: the sluggish world economy has provided little incentive to pop champagne corks. But the French producers are also paying for aggressive pricing in the days of high demand. Prices nearly doubled during the '80s. Champagne drinkers started looking elsewhere -- notably to Australia, the U.S. and Spain -- for acceptably priced bubbly, even...
...diversification of Harvard Square, the store's high fixed costs and the still-sluggish retail market could conspire to deal another severe blow to the Coop's finances and the student rebate...
...diversification of Harvard Square, the store's high fixed costs and the still-sluggish retail market could conspire to deal another severe blow to the Coop's finances and the student rebate...
With the economy still sluggish, the interest rate for 30-year Treasury bonds reached a historic...