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...would never amount to anything. The athletic coaches disagreed: the following year Bud won letters in track and football, finished first in the school decathalon, and set a record by doing one thousand straight push-ups. He might have done more, but a teacher, worried that the youth would strain his heart, ordered him to stop...
...standing, the streets are littered with debris, barely anything is recognizable. With an estimated 3,000 deaths, 1906 was the deadliest earthquake in California's history. Economists have even connected the following year's economic crash with the quake; millions of dollars went to rebuild the city, putting a strain on the money supply...
...hour-a-week employee. While NCCTF can keep the employee until the end of the fiscal year, the part-time position will no longer be funded thereafter. Although the Cambridge Community Learning Center has only seen a small reduction in funding, the center is still under strain because its operational costs have increased due to inflation. The center is looking to cut back on the computer classes it provides due to a reduction in funding for the salaries of teaching staff, according to the center’s director. “With the increase in costs each year, it?...
...phone interview, Faust declined to discuss specific budgetary changes, only stating that each of the University’s schools will be responding to the financial strain in its own way. She also declined to say definitively whether the University would slow down its physical expansion or limit the growth of the faculty, saying only that deans would look to achieve cost savings by wringing out administrative inefficiencies...
...phone interview, Faust declined to discuss specific budgetary changes, only stating that each of the University’s schools will be responding to the financial strain in its own way. She also declined to say definitively whether the University would slow down its physical expansion or limit the growth of the faculty, saying only that deans would look to achieve cost savings by wringing out administrative inefficiencies...