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...Labor Department told the Urban Mass Transit Administration Friday to delay a $30 million stipend to the T because MBTA officials altered the language in the grant contract, possibly qualifying the terms of the grant's certification...
...Cleveland, where Marsden eventually joined him. "I had a childhood vast with terror and surprise," he wrote later. Shy and insecure, he began to paint. He received a scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art, where he so impressed one trustee that she offered him a five-year stipend to study in New York. He took classes at the National Academy of Design and spent the summers in Maine. Slowly he evolved a style of his own, ignoring conventional perspective, relying heavily on expressive brush strokes. The neoimpressionist result was what Haskell calls "a degree of gestural abstraction that would...
...than just medals. An Olympic-caliber competitor is a kind of professional amateur, with a salary paid by the state and a standard of living roughly equivalent to that of a successful factory manager. Vladimir Yashchenko, 21, a world-class high jumper busily training for the Olympics, receives a stipend of $400 from the government. Irina Rodnina, 30, and Alexander Zaitsev, 28, the 1980 winter Olympic champion figure-skating pair, live in a two-bedroom apartment in downtown Moscow, a privilege seldom granted to a couple so young. Once their playing days are over, many Olympic athletes can look forward...
...developing enough leaders to succeed the U.S. as the "center of human prosperity." The new school, into which Matsushita has already put $28 million of his "spending money," attacks the problem head on. Students are given free tuition, room and full board and a $600-a-month stipend. "I was determined to open this school even if there was but one applicant," said Matsushita in the inaugural address. There were, in fact, 907 applicants, but just 24 passed the grueling written and oral entrance exam. Says new Principal Yasushi Hisakado: "We looked for those exuding ambition...
Tiny, gray-eyed, her face deeply seamed with the passing years, Mother Teresa received the news with characteristic lack of fuss in the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Calcutta. She has won an array of international honors, and though this one carried the biggest stipend so far-$190,000-she took it in stride. "Personally, I am unworthy," she said in her first response to the award...