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...takes their rhetoric seriously, one would think that schools like Harvard area conservative's dream. Private education relieves government of some of the responsibility of educating the citizenry. It's voluntarism at its best. Sure, under the present system, Uncle Sam picks up part of the tuition tab, but the bulk of he funding comes from private sources Guaranteed student loans are made and administered by banks and other market systems, and cost the taxpayers only a fraction of the total size of the program if it's the taxpayer's only a fraction of the total size...

Author: By Williams S. Benjamin, | Title: Salient Points on Education Cuts | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...measure, Phillips paid a high price for independence. It emerged intact but badly bruised. Just one humiliating item on the tab: payments of $25 million each to reimburse the two raiders for the expenses they ran up while trying to take over the company. All told, Phillips Chairman William Douce estimated that the back-to-back assaults will cost the company $150 million. The ordeal will leave Phillips smaller and heavily in debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Price of Freedom | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

Most of the student crowd comes from nearby Adams House, although you are sure to see at least one Crimson staffer hunched over a Tab and fries, bivouacking before a late press run. On the weekends, after a Hasty Pudding party or a punching function. Tommy's overflows with well-dressed, poorly behaved men and women from Harvard and other local colleges. The countermen refer to these last years as "the outsiders"--the troublemakers...

Author: By Theodore P. Friesd, | Title: The Allure of Cheesesteak and Abuse | 2/22/1985 | See Source »

...Cambridge Tab quoted Crane, a member of the Association for a Better Cambridge--a loosely defined moderate, pro-reform group as saying that if he does "get a slate together, the basic thing we will be most committed to will be the streamlining of operations at the council as well as instilling some more businesslike behavior at the council...we will want to make it less like a circus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Bitties | 2/19/1985 | See Source »

...directed a number of documentaries and theatrical productions. In addition, the film makers decided to brave four months' shooting on location in India, an adventure that involved wrangling 300 containers of equipment past vigilant customs officers, recruiting local beggars to act as extras and running up a tab of $7 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Grand Elegy to the Raj | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

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