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Graduates of Currier House and former masters, tutors and Radcliffe officials will return to "swap stories" and examine the history of Currier in a presentation from the Radcliffe College Archive, Frazier said...
...poor people are protected against unfair treatment and that there is no massive shift in tax burdens from Washington to states and cities. The Governors, moreover, said they wanted Washington to assume greater, rather than less responsibility for welfare and Medicaid costs. Overall, however, the Governors were willing to swap tighter-funding limits for greater control over how they spend the money...
...becoming discouraged about the issue, Tehran provided the solution. Iran said that it would return enough money to pay back the loans. Said one participant in the negotiations: "Suddenly it became very clear that we had a break. We got on the same wave length with the Iranians-a swap." Lawyers, bankers and Government officials quickly pushed to accelerate the development of new figures and accounting details to comply with the Iranian proposal...
...office towers or aboard private Learjets. In such transactions, aides with bulging briefcases and thick black books usually dance attendance near by, ready to proffer, at a nod from the principals, relevant statistics and legal interpretations. But the deal under discussion did not involve a merger or a stock swap but a swap of a different kind:, a trade for a relief pitcher, a third baseman and young outfielder. And, because baseball men are true to the traditions of their anachronistic business, Whitey Herzog, general manager and manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Bob Kennedy, general manager...
Keyboard Player Brian O'Neal, 24, and his bassist brother Kevin, 19, who wrote Minimum Wage's eleven songs and swap most of the lead vocals, share a gift for flipping stereotypes into comic contortions. Kevin's Respect is part Rodney Dangerfield, part Aretha Franklin. Brian's Johnny Soul'd Out is a black man's declaration of independence to make the kind of music he wants, not what is expected of him ("Johnny soul'd out . . ./ He's into rock 'n' roll and he's given...