Word: springs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN Undergraduate Council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 was unanimously reelected last week, many council members said they were satisfied with the council's course. And indeed, the council deserves credit for making an entrance onto the stage of relevancy this fall. This spring, the council should take on an even more ambitious agenda...
...Spring 1984: Rolf Kiefer, owner of a small metal-construction firm in Wiesbaden, West Germany, receives a request to bid on the construction of a technology park in North Africa. The man soliciting the bids calls it a "big contract." Kiefer is intrigued, but as he says later, "when someone comes in with a suitcase full of money, you feel wary." When Kiefer learns that the "park" is to be built in Libya, he bows out. "I assumed from the outset that the man was talking about a weapons factory," recalls Kiefer, "and we didn't want to get involved...
...Illinois couple is among the legion of determined Americans who are struggling against all odds to buy their first home. But now, as the spring house-hunting season approaches, some help may be on the way. Everyone from builders to bankers to President Bush, who has called the home-buying crunch "among the most important and challenging issues in America today," seems eager to help first-timers catch up with the runaway cost of housing. When Jack Kemp was sworn in this month as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the former Congressman promised grandly, if vaguely, to "help recapture...
...waiters' tips for the Internal Revenue Service, as well as pay federal unemployment and Social Security taxes on such income. "It's a lot of extra work. We have to spend time keeping records because the Government doesn't want to," said Don O'Neill, the owner of the Spring House restaurant in Pittsford...
...plan to reserve 25 percent of the space available in eight of the residential houses for random assignment this spring has highlighted the inability of even the most organized student resistance to have their input considered...