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Bogorad said that the organization hardest hit by the budget cuts was the National Science Foundation, mentioning the toll cuts would take on the Foundation's ability to disperse grants to worthy applicants...
...such bank, DIALOG Information Services Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., buys reports, statistics and doctoral dissertations from some 140 different corporations, universities and even the government. When using the service, a subscriber dials a toll-free 800 number and connects his telephone receiver to a coupler device that links his office computer to the DIALOG computer. He can then transmit queries and receive the answers within seconds. Cost for such services can run as high as $300 an hour, a sum that businesses can afford much more readily than the average individual...
...students on whom rising tuitions and declining federal aid are most likely to take their toll are the very ones who have helped make Harvard's student body more diverse in recent years. The decision of the Admissions Office to step up recruiting for minorities and other under-represented groups is heartening in this regard, but even more can be done...
...first indication that something was amiss came when television transmission from the parade broke off. With martial music playing in the background, peaceful scenes of Egyptian villages flashed onto the screen. Finally an announcer told the viewers that the President had left the parade. By that time, the toll from the attack stood at five killed and 28 wounded, including four Americans. Sadat was in the hospital in a coma, blood gushing from his mouth. Bullets and shrapnel had ripped into the left side of his chest, his neck, knee and thigh. A later medical bulletin would reveal that death...
...high altitude in Mexico City took its toll on many athlets, and the boat had to shuffle its members before a last-gasp qualifying race. Steve Brooks moved from the three-spot to stroke, and Jake Fiechter '67 took three. Brooks, now a private economic consultant in Worcester, had stroked the undefeated freshman boat just a year before...