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...week-long All Savers free-for-all was hardly unique. These days millions of investors are being badgered by conflicting advice from bankers and brokers. That is because sliding interest rates are shaking up the entire investment industry. As the luster has faded from such multi-billion-dollar investment lures as money-market mutual funds and six-month bank certificates of deposit, investment experts have been scrambling to come up with new high-yield alternatives that will appeal to safety-conscious investors...
...days of all-nighters and week-long thesis typing marathons may not be over this fall, but they could be significantly reduced if College officials give final approval tro a unique plan to install word processors in all Houses and freshmen dorms...
...freeze and reduction of all nuclear weapons and the transfer of funds from military budgets to human needs." The giant gathering, timed to coincide with the opening of the United Nations second special session on disarmament, which runs from June 7 to July 9, is the centerpiece of a week-long series of concerts, demonstrations, prayer meetings and teach-ins. The sponsors include myriad peace and disarmament organizations, church groups and community activists...
...island proudly call themselves "kelpers," for the seaweed that grows thickly offshore. Visitors relish the fact that the milkman arrives at the door with his cow and then produces just enough milk to fill a bottle. Or that the big social event of the year is a week-long series of sheep-dog trials, sheep-shearing contests, horse races and other bucolic competitions. Or that the only telephone line is a single strand on which the islanders not only eavesdrop but into which they even plug their radios for family entertainment. Legend has it that one vengeful curmudgeon attached...
...week-long deliberations in the arbitration proceedings on the requested reinstatement of a dining hall employee ended yesterday, with neither University lawyers nor food service union officials predicting the eventual outcome. The arbitrator will hand down a decision by early...