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...trim tab of the book's title is the small, hinged section on a ship's rudder that helps to steer the vessel. Willens, a real estate developer and onetime textile machinery manufacturer, contends that businessmen are America's trim tab. "Business is the most flexible and change-oriented segment of our society," he writes, and "possesses inordinate power to influence the direction of our national enterprise...
Officials say other causes for the schools financial problems include a lack of wealthy alumni to tab, a lows student to instructor ratio, a small endowment and a heavy reliance on tuition for revenue. Only the Law School gets more of its budget from tuition then GSD's 57 percent...
...when the actor Kirk Douglas brought a party of eight into Sahid's establishment, 5,400 dinars (about $45) hardly seemed a fitting tab to present to Spartacus. So Sahid made it 54,000 and requested dollars. The joint has been padlocked...
...NOTEBOOK The Crimson outshot Wesleyan 52-5. The icewomen upped their overall record to 11-7-1... They square off against Cornell in Ithaca Friday night. At Wesleyan Harvard 7 4 3-14 Wesleyan Tab...
Last August, Senators Paula Hawkins, Jake Garn and Frank Lautenberg visited the Far East. Had they flown first-class in commercial planes, their tab would have been about $30,000. Instead, they used an Air Force jet on which they could bring along spouses and assorted aides. The highflying cost: $244,013. When Congressman James Howard of New Jersey went to Ireland, he had the State Department arrange a dinner at Dublin's most expensive restaurant. The bill: $1,900. Most traveled was Congressman Robert Badham, a California Republican, who spent almost three months touring 24 countries...