Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While students claim the tuition increase could be avoided if B.U. eliminates certain expenditures, John R. Silber, president of B.U., said in a statement released last week the nation's 7 per cent inflation rate necessitates the increase. B.U.'s tuition, room and board costs are set at $6280 for the academic year...
...magnitude of his statement only hit me later on. In a classic cinematic double take--which obviously warmed the cockles of the woman behind me--I realized that my non-existent mathematical proclivities had once again done me in. Ten plus four-and-a-half equals 2:30, not 12:30. We were non-stop and there was no way to call my friend and warn him. So I waited calmly, read my book, and wondered just how pissed off he would...
Coolidge Bank and Trust Company has announced to its customers that interest rates in NOW checking accounts will fluctuate depending on the amount of money in the account starting with the April/May statement...
Somehow, that statement seems to summarize the warped twist of fate that has met the Phils in the playoffs the past two autumns. A slightly less sympathetic way of saying it is that they've choked the last two years...
...with finesse; the problem is that he never gives that humanity the extra dimension it achieves in the work of truly major writers. Greene leaves us with kiss-and-tell philosophy, and a coolness toward life that throughout his books is never satisfactorily justified. He maroons us with statement like: "I have always been torn between two beliefs; the belief that life should be better, and the belief that when it appears better it is really worse." It sounds nice, but it's no way to live, or to make us believe in life. Take that from someone...