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...with her insurance executive husband: "It's still more expensive than what I'm used to, but it's no more expensive than cities like San Francisco and New York." Even students are scrimping less. Susan Shafer, 19, of Michigan State University, who is on a ten-week foreign study program, shares a two-bedroom flat in the Latin Quarter for $16 a day, a price that includes two meals...
They worked hard and precipitately. Nicholas Nickleby opened to guarded enthusiasm that turned, over the course of an initial ten-week run, into a national obsession. Nicholas Nickleby helped to right those vexing money matters, became a rallying point for yet another of those renaissances in British theater that occur as regularly as breaks in the weather and, not incidentally, reconfirmed the R.S.C. as the country's premier theater company. If one wanted to go even further and claim that the R.S.C. was the greatest company anywhere just now, the arguments would be inconclusive, but the evidence would...
Diane Spinell, financial aid officer at the Dental School, said Thursday, "Since our students are normally in school 11 months a year, we usually wind up using only half the money given us. This year the school switched to a five-year curriculum, giving the students a ten-week break between first and second year. Many students spent the time working," she added...
...crude that they can, even at $32 per bbl. Said one Exxon official: "There's still a fear of being caught short if Iraq reduced production or Iran cut back more. We're going to fill every bucket." American oil reserves now amount to only a ten-week supply of imports at current consumption levels, and today's ocean of oil could evaporate like a mirage in the desert...
Severe weather is expected all over the state, and the scientists at the Norman laboratory, operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) laboratory, have just launched the second part of a ten-week storm project called Sesame 79. Part 1 examined regional atmospheric conditions. Part 2 is aimed at collecting data from specific storms. Nobody in the Great Plains is pleased to learn that a tornado is on the way. But these scientists, engaged in a $3.5 million project to help measure and ultimately predict tornadoes and severe storms, are excusably excited...