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...response of the University administration to the objections that have already been raised is two-fold. First, we are assured that there will be safeguards to prevent abuses of the system. The prospect of the University treating with an even hand and without the slightest prejudice a professor in whom it has already invested $200,000 in a joint financial venture is ludicrous. It would be amusing to witness the scene when such a professor is informed that, although his or her research is undoubtedly of great commercial value, it is no larger of much intellectual interest...
...ironies of Owens' life are two-fold. Owens said upon his return from the Olympics that Americans had over-emphasized Hitler's refusal to shake his hand. After all, he added, in his own country Owens had to sit in the back of the bus. Ultimately, he said he was not considered an American athlete but a Black person. Owens' tragic death from lung cancer comes at a particular touchy time for the United States as president Carter and the Olympic Committee debate whether the country should enter the games scheduled for Moscow this summer...
...purpose of the invitation was two-fold: first, translating English into Ukrainian probably is an interesting problem, at least for specialists. But more importantly, the department sent the invitation in the hope of helping Karavansky's situation. Karavansky could use some help; he has spent nearly 30 of his 59 years in Soviet jails as a political prisoner...
...June 2, 1976, John Howe raised the Journal's tax assessment from $13,000 to $24,4000--an increase of nearly 100 per cent. The Journal had remodeled its building in the past year, but the changes were minor compared with the nearly two-fold property tax increase. "He singled us out, there's no question about it," says one Journal staffer. "He didn't do the same to other businesses." The newspaper appealed Howe's decision, and received a full tax abatement...
...BOYCOTT serves a two-fold purpose. First, if it catches on, it may cut into Stevens's profit margin; in this case, the old adage, "money talks," is unfortunately apropos. More likely, though, the boycott will succeed in bringing broad-based political pressure to bear on recalcitrant executives; it might even force the government to take more drastic action in enforcing...