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...paying their $9000 term bill, the University owes it to students to live up to its part of the bargain and seek students out, not blame students for not pursuing it more actively. Fox disagrees, arguing that students should look at the money spent as an investment, not a swap. "If you want to buy a $9000 car and let it rust in the driveway, go ahead," he says...
...report Dingman submitted to CHUL states that "a swap of one man for one woman in Mather House and four men for four women in Currier House would rectify the problem...
...does not work any better than a tedious novel about tedium. The Bleeding Heart can be entered in both categories. Its beginning reads as if D.H. Lawrence and Erica Jong had collaborated on a soap opera. Victor and Dolores first meet on a train between London and Oxford, silently swap glances and end up in bed at her apartment without exchanging ten words or knowing each other's last names. A sample description of this zipless encounter: "They clutched and caressed as their hearts pumped, as the sparks fell, as fiery charges burned them up." Sometimes the prose strains...
...lowest price, as ultimately damaging to the producing states. Anti-American rioting in Iran has made involvement with the U.S. seem even more unwise. Such oil ministers as Iraq's fiery Tayeh Abdul-Karim and the Emirates' Mani Said Utaiba argue that it is stupid to swap valuable and nonrenewable oil for increasingly inflated dollars that Washington might some day freeze anyway, as it has done in the case of Iran...
...could spend the next 20 years just keeping his $5 billion multinational growing in the tighteningly competitive auto market. He is busy now negotiating a deal with Renault to swap Swedish shares for French capital and front-wheel technology. But Gyllenhammar has a cause beyond cars. He is going through the world and warning that the industrial nations have a growing problem: "the mismatch between people and jobs...