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What other schools were named frequently in the survey? Yale got 37.8 percent. But what can we say? We said it all in the Yale Supplement, Page 2: "Yale Hates Harvard. Harvard Doesn't Care." So there. Princeton--named by 28.0 percent--is in New Jersey. Imagine an entire campus quadded. Their shuttle buses don't run to New York City, let alone Harvard Square. How do they get to the Science Center...
...qualitatively better than those in poor areas. Instead, since 1980, states have provided nearly 50% of schools' public funds, while the rest comes from local and Federal governments. Tax revolts have even further reduced local revenues. One result is that more and more school districts are trying to supplement their budgets by passing hats instead of raising taxes...
Mclunis cited inflated retail prices by the Dartmouth bookstore as a major part of the club's incentive for their project. He quoted "The Supplement to Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry" as an example. "The Dartmouth bookstore charged $11.95 for this book at the beginning of the term, but it lists for under $11 retail," he said...
...hardware rather than on cargo ships and planes. Since 1981, the number of U.S. "mobile logistics ships" (vessels that carry petroleum, ammunition and other cargo to resupply battle fleets at sea) has increased by exactly one, from 72 to 73. Some 50 new transport planes are on order to supplement the present fleet of 70 C-5A Galaxies and 234 C-141 Star-Lifters. But the new planes will not begin flying for two years...
...acquisitions. His purchases of dailies like the New Orleans Times-Picayune and its sister, the States-Item (for $42 million in 1962), set records for the amount spent on newspapers. In 1976, Newhouse outbid Times Mirror for the Booth Newspapers of Michigan, whose holdings included the Sunday magazine supplement Parade. The purchase price of $304.5 million remains the highest ever paid in a U.S. newspaper transaction...